first entire give in the names of all and every the aforesaid Souldiers to the Clearke of the Cheque to bee entred in his booke and from time to time shall certifie the deaths and alterations of the same to the Lord Deputy and Cleark of the Checque in convenient time as the same may reasonably be done having regard to the distance of the place and as other Captaines of the army are bound to doe Item the said Iustice Saxey shall have for his stipend yearely one hundred pounds sterling and the said Iames Gold assistant or second Iustice one hundred markes sterling and the said Clark of the Councel twenty pounds sterling and which stipends and wages shall be payed quarterly by the hands of the Treasurer at warres or Vice-treasurer here of this Realme of Ireland And if the said Iustice or assistant and secondary Iustice shall depart out of the Limits of the Commission aforesaid without the speciall licence of the said Lord President or having leave shall tarry longer out then the time granted then without reasonable cause of excuse the said Lord President shall deduct and defalke out of their said severall entertainments so much as the said wages of so many dayes doth amount unto to the use of her Majestie towards her other charges to be extraordinarily sustained in the execution of their Commission at the discretion of The said Lord President Item for further reputation and honour of the same Office the said Lord President shall have continually attending upon him a Serjeant at Armes who shall beare the Mace of the Queenes Majesties Armes before him in such manner as the Serjeant at Armes doth beare the Mace before the President in Wales which Serjeant may at all times be sent by the said Lord President and Councell for th'apprehending and bringing in of any disobedient person receiving of every such person being of the degree of a Gentleman so commonly knowen and having yearely liuelihood by any meanes of tenne pounds for his arrest ten shillings and for the arrest of every particular person six shillings eight pence and six shillings eight pence for every dayes travell and not aboue Hee shall also haue his dyet in the Household of the said Lord President and towards his maintenance the ordinary wages of one of the thirtie Horsemen And forasmuch as there must bee of necessitie one Officer to whom all offenders and malefactors are to bee committed during the time of their Imprisonment it is thought meet that the said Lord President shall appoint one Porter to haue charge of the Goale who shall haue his dyet in the househould of the said Lord President and bee accounted as one of the twentie Footmen and receiue the wages due for the same and also such other profits upon every prisoner as ensueth viz. for the entry of every prisoner so to him committed having liuelihood of tenne pounds by the yeare three shillings foure pence and twelue pence by the day for his dyet during his abode in prison and for every other person of inferiour condition two shillings for his entry and six pence by the day for his dyet Item the said Lord President and Councell if oportunitie may serue monethly or once every two moneths at the least advertise us the Lo. Deputie and Councell here of the State of the Country within their Commission or oftner if they shall see cause And where the said Lo President and Councell shal haue by their Commission sufficient authoritie to heare and determine by their discretions all manner of complaints within any part of the province of Mounster as well guildeable as franchise yet they shall haue good regard that except great necessitie or other matters of conscience conceived upon the complaint shall moue him they shall not hinder nor impeach the good course and usage of the common Lawes of the Realme but shall to their power further the execution thereof nor shall without evident cause interrupt such Liberties and Franchises as haue lawfull commencement and continuance by the warrants of the Law other wayes then where any speciall complaint shall be made unto them of any manifest wrong or delay of Iustice done or used by the owners Officers or Ministers of the said Franchises or Liberties In which cases the said Lord President and Councell shall examine the said defaults so alledged by way of complaint to be counted in the Franchises and shall send for the Officers against whom complaint shall be made and finding the same to be true they shall not only heare and determine the particular principall causes of the parties complaints but shall also reforme punish according to their discretions the defaults of the said owners and Ministers of the said Liberties and if the matter shall so serue upon due information to be made to us of the abuses of the said Franchises and Liberties so as the same may be done by order according to the lawes tryed and upon just causes the Liberties resumed into the Queenes Majesties hands Item where the said Lo President and Councell shall haue Commission power and authoritie by Letters Patents under the Great Seale of this Realme of Ireland and of Oyer Determiner and Goale deliverie in as large and ample manner as any such Commission or Authoritie is graunted to any Commissioners for that purpose within the Realmes of England or Ireland Wee the said Lord Deputie and Councell doe earnestly require and charge the said Lord President and Councell that hee and they doe diligently and often severely and justly sit heare and determine by vertue of the same such causes as shall bee brought before them in such severall places as best may agree with the necessitie of the cause and the commoditie of the people Item where also the said Lord President hath full power and authoritie by Letters patents under the great Seale of this realme to execute the Martiall law when necessitie shall require in as large and ample manner as to any other it hath beene accustomed to bee graunted within this realme of Ireland The said Lord President shall haue good regard thereunto that no use be made of the Martiall lawe but when meere necessitie shall require for the exercise thereof is onely to bee allowed where other ordinarie administration of Iustice cannot take place foreseeing alwayes that no person having fiue pound of Freehold or goods to the value of tenne pound shall not bee tried by the order of the Martiall Law but by order of the common Law And yet if necessitie for service and terrour to others shall at any time require the Martiall Lawe to be executed vpon any one person or moe being of greater value in lands or goods then aboue is expressed the President in such speciall causes may use his discretion and thereof and of the causes that mooved him shall make us the Lord Deputie and Councell privie Item
such Land If any of them heereafter be disobedient to her Lawes or breake foorth in Rebellion shee may when they shall bee more divided ruine them more easily for example unto others and if it be thought fit may plant English or other Irish in their Countreyes For although there ever haue beene and hereafter may bee small eruptions in some places which at the first may easily bee suppressed yet the suffering them to grow to that generall head and combination did questionlesse proceed from great errour in the judgement heere and may be easily as I thinke prevented hereafter And further it may please her Majestie to ground her resolution for the time and numbers of the next abatement of the List of her Armie somewhat upon our poore advise from hence and to beleeue that wee will not so farre corrupt our Iudgements with any private respects and without necessitie to continue her Charge seeing wee doe throughly conceiue how grievous it is unto her Estate and that wee may not bee precisely tyed to an Establishment that shall conclude the payments of the Treasure since it hath ever been thought fit to bee otherwise till the comming over of the Earle of Essex and some such extraordinarie Occasions may fall out that it will bee dangerous to attend your Lordships Resolutions and when it will bee safe to diminish the Armie heere that there may bee some course thought of by some other Employment to disburthen this Countrey of the idle Sword-men in whom I finde an inclination apt enough to bee carried elsewhere either by some of this Countrey of best reputation among them or in Companies as now they stand under English Captaines who may bee reinforced with the greatest part of Irish That it may bee left to our discretion to make Passages and Bridges into Countreyes otherwise unaccessable and to build little Pyles of stone in such Garrisons as shall bee thought fittest to bee continuall Bridles upon the people by the commoditie of which wee may at any time drawe the greatest part of the Armie together to make a Head against any part that shall first breake out and yet reserue the places onely with a Ward to put in greater Forces as occasion shall require which I am perswaded will prooue great Pledges upon this Countrey that upon any urgent cause the Queene may safely draw the greatest part of her Armie heere out of the Kingdome to bee employed at least for a time elsewhere wherein I beseech your Lordships to consider what a strength so many experienced Captaines and Souldiers would bee to any Armie of new men erected in England against an Invasion or sent abroad in any offensiue warre But untill these places bee built I cannot conceiue how her Majestie with any safetie can make any great diminution of her Armie Lastly I doe humbly desire your Lordships to receiue the further explanation of my meaning and confirmation of my reasons that doe induce mee unto these propositions for the Lord President of Mounster who as he hath been a very worthy Actor in the reducement and defence of this Kingdome so doe I thinke him to be the best able to giue you through account of the present Estate and future providence for the preservation thereof wherein it may please your Lordships to require his opinion of the hazard this Kingdome is like to runne in if it should by any mightie Power be invaded and how hard it will bee for us in any measure to provide for the present defence if any such bee intended and withall to goe on with the suppression of these that are left in rebellion so that wee must either adventure the kindling of this fire that is almost extinguished or intending onely that leaue the other to exceeding perill And thus having remembred to your Lordships the most materiall poynts as I conceiue that are fittest for the present to bee considered of I doe humbly recommend my selfe and them to your Lordships favour From her Majesties Castle of Dublin the sixe and twentieth of February 1602. After the Lord Deputie departed by reason of Easterly winds the President was stayed aboue three weekes in Dublin during which time every day Posts were emploied betweene them untill the twentieth of March which was the day the Lord President set saile for England the day following hee arrived at Bewmarris at his comming to Chester hee met with the lamentable newes of the decease of his good and gracious Mistresse Queene Elizabeth for whom as he had good cause he extreamely mourned But two dayes following being at Lichfield he assisted the Major in the proclaiming of King Iames which gaue him new life whom I beseech God long to preserue and continue his Posteritie for ever over his triumphant Monarchy of Great Brittaine and Ireland Although my VVorke bee finished yet according to the course I haue held in the end of the two former Bookes I may not omit to recount to the Reader the most memorable Services and accidents which hapned in this yeere 1602. In the Catalogue whereof I must first begin with the forces sent into Carbery with the Earle of Thomond The sending of Sir Charles Wilmot with his Regiment into Kerry The Lord Presidents departure from Corke with the Armie towards Donboy His long abode at Carew Castle expecting Munition and Victuals The difficulty he had in his approaching towards Donboy The defeat given to the Rebels The arrivall of a Spanish Caravell in Beare with Letters of Comfort Money and Munition from Spaine The siege of Donboy the winning and rasing of it The Presidents returne to Corke and Sir Charles Wilmots into Kerry The flight of Iames Archer the Iesuite and Connor Odrischall into Spaine The relapse of Sir Owen Mac Carties Sonnes The Spanish Hostages returned into Spaine The restraint of Cormock Lord of Muskery His escape and reduction The winning of the Castle of Mocrumpe The defeat of Tirrell and his Bonnoghs in Muskery The sending of Sir Samuell Bagnall with fifteene hundred men to the Lord Deputie The Service done upon the Knight of Kerry The flight of Tirrell with his Bonoghs out of the Province The defeat of the Rebells in Glangarne The flight of William Burke with his Bonoghs Osulevan Beare and Connor Kerry out of Mounster The overthrow of the Cartyes in Carbery And the killing of the Popes Apostolique Vicar Owen Mac Egan The sending of a Regiment with Munition and Victualls for the service in Connaght The defeat of the Lord of Lixnaw The finall Reduction of Mounster The appointing of Sir Charles Wilmot and Sir George Thornton joynt Commissioners for the Government of Mounster And the departure of the Lord President into ENGLAND FINIS 1599. Devoreux Butler Roche Blunt Carew The landing of the Lord Deputie and Lord President in Ireland St. Lawrence Carew The Warrant for the passing of letters Patents to the Lo. President Norris Carew Blunt Carew Norris Norris Norris Cary. The Lo. Presidents Letters Patents Norris Carew Carew Blunt Carew
necessary for the sustenance of our Troopes because there came not such a quantitie of Bisquet as his Majestie commanded and was not more then for two Moneths or little more It is likewise convenient that there come a great summe of monie for it imports much to pay well for want whereof there rise no disorders that of friends wee gaine not enemies That others may come in the place of the Accounter and overseer that brought us to the Groyne It is convenient to send two Doctors because there is none in the regiment of Spaniards Likewise that an Auditor Generall bee sent to serue here because there is none It behooveth also to send Carpenters and Smiths or Farriers being very necessary And that his Majestie bee served that there might remaine here three or foâ—re ships to giue advise of whatsoever shall succeed there being none left here at this present The next day after Don Iuan was landed Sir Charles Wilmot sent Captaine Francis Slingesby with his â—oote Company and Sir Anthony Cooks Horse with directions to take the best view hee could of their fleete and forces who at his comming thither found them possessed both of the Towne of Kinsale and of the Castle of Rincorran neere adjoyning unto it and to bid him welcome they drew forth a Company or two of Foote and a skirmish for a little space was entertayned wherein there were some hurt but none slaine Captaine Slingsby having performed his directions returned to Corke CHAP. XI Second Letters from Sir Charles Wilmot of the arrivall of the Spaniards in Kinsale Debate in Councell what wâ—â— meetest for the Lord Deputy to doe The Lord Deputy assented to the Lord Presidents advise The Lord Presidents providence A dispatch into England of the Spaniards arrivall The Lord Deputy goeth with the Lord President into Mounster None of the Provincials of Mounster did adhere to the Spaniards as their first landing The report of a Master of a Scottish Barque concerning the strength of the Spaniard Captaine Flower sent to view Kinsale Direction given for the burning of the Corne neere Kinsale A Letter from the Archbishop of Dublin and Don Iuan de Aquila unto Tyrone and O Donnell The Lord Deputy and Lord President c. went to view the Towne of Kinsale The Lord Deputy with the Army marched towards Kinsale AT the instant when Sir Charles Wilmots Letters of the Spaniards arrivall came to Kilkenny which was upon the three and twentieth of September as afore mentioned the Lord Deputie the Earle of Ormond the Lord President Sir Richard Wingfielde Marshall of the Army of Ireland and Sir Robert Gardiner the chiefe Iustice were in Councell advising what course was fittest to take if the Spaniards should land But now Sir Charles Wilmots Letters gaue them cause to advise what should be done they being landed to confirme the same while they were in Councell second Letters came from Sir Charles Wilmot and the Major of Corke that the Spaniards had quitted the harbour of Corke and were all at an Anchor in the haven of Kinsale The question was then what the Lord Deputy should doe The Earle of Ormond the Marshall and the chiefe Iustice were of opinion that hee should doe well to hasten to Dublin and there to assemble his forces together and whilest they were drawing to a head to giue order for supplyes of victuals and munitions to bee sent to Corke and that the President should presently bee dispatched into the Province to defend the Citie of Corke untill the Lord Deputie came to his reliefe wherein all expedition was to bee vsed for their reasons were that if the Lord Deputie presented himselfe in the Province with small forces it would encourage the Enemy and put distrust and feare in the Provincials which were either well affected or neutrals The Presidents advise was opposite to theirs beseeching the Lord Deputy to goe presently into Mounster although hee had no more then his Page with him for said he if the Provincials shall see that you turne your backe towards them they will conceiue it proceeds of want of force and then undoubtedly a generall revolt will ensue but when they shall see you personally amongst them that doubt will be removed and besides the Armie now dispersed will make more haste after you then they would doe if you attended their comming to Dublin The Lord Deputy inclined to the Presidents Councell but said he what should I doe there not being able to mainetaine the Armie with victuals for the space of a weeke nor to furnish it with munitions of both which there is no remaine in the Magazines in Dublin The President willed him to take no care for those wants for hee would furnish him and the whole Armie for two or three moneths which indeed hee was able to doe for hee had spared the expence of victuals not consuming so much as a Bisquet for more then sixe moneths giving the Souldiers money and having beene evermore confident of the Spaniards arrivall had procured good supplyes of munitions which were frugally and sparingly issued The Lord Deputy like unto one that was overjoyed with such unexpected provisions rose from his Chaire embraced the President and said that if hee had not beene more then provident that himselfe did not know what to haue done and that his honour had beene indangered and ascribed to him what hee well deserved In conclusion the foure and twentieth the Marshall Sir Henry Davers and Sir Iohn Barkley were dispatched into Linster and to Armaghe to assemble the Army and to bring it withall possible expedition into Mounster and Letters were dispatched to Sir Charles Wilmot to bee well upon his guard and dispatches sent into England by Captaine Iohn Roberts of the Spaniards arrivall All things being thus ordered doubt was made how the Lord Deputy could be conveyed safely to Corke being attended by no other then his household servants in that dangerous time which was satisfied by the President who had then with him there one hundred Horse and for the furnishing of the Lord Deputies house at Corke with stuffe and vtensils hee undertooke the care The same day the Lord Deputy and President Sir Robert Gardiner departed from Kilkenny and the same night they lodged at Kilkenan the Lord Dunboynes house the next night at Clonmell the sixe and twentieth at Glanogher the Lord Roches house and the next day following they came to Corke Now are wee come to siege of Kinsale a place ordayned wherein the honour and safetie of Queene Elizabeth the reputation of the English nation the cause of Religion and the Crowne of Ireland must bee by Armes disputed for upon the successes of this siege as these great and important consequences depended And here the malice of Rome and Spaine if they had prevailed would not haue ceased for their purposes did extend it selfe Ireland having beene conquered to make it their bridge to haue invaded England the
ready to come forth and Sir George Thornton the Sergeant Major Captaine Roger Harvie Captaine Power and others entering the Vault to receiue them Captaine Power found the said Richard Mac Goghegan lying there mortally wounded as before and perceiving Taylor and the rest ready to render themselues raised himselfe from the ground snatching a light Candle and staggering therewith to a barrell of powder which for that purpose was unheaded offering to cast it into the same Captaine Power tooke him and held him in his armes with intent to make him prisoner untill he was by our men who perceived his intent instantly killed and then Taylor and the rest were brought prisoners to the Campe. The same day fiftie eight were executed in the Market place but the Fryer Taylor and one Tirlagh Roe Mac Swiny a follower unto Sir Tirlagh O Brian and twelue more of Tirrels chiefe men the Lord President reserved aliue to trie whether he could draw them to doe some more acceptable service theÌ„ their liues were worth The whole number of the Ward consisted of one hundred fortie three selected fighting men being the best choice of all their Forces of the which no one man escaped but were either slaine executed or buried in the ruines and so obstinate and resolved a defence hath not bin seene within this kingdome On our part we lost in the place Thomas Smith Captaine Francis Slingsbies Lieutenant and some others many of our men were burnt with Powder and Fire-works which the enemie cast amongst them as they were in fight Men of note hurt Captaine Dodington shot with two Bullets in the body but not mortall his Lieutenant Francis Kirton shot in the arme and thigh divers 〈…〉 CHAP. IX 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 hee would never upon which answer this twelve Men before respited two dayes after were executed The cause wherfore he so suddainly swarâ—ed from his first promise of service was the hopes which hee received by Owen Mac Egan the Popes Bishop of Rosse lately arrived at Ardea in the Bay as aforesaid of Claâ—marrah The President therefore perceiving that they conceived great hope of Spaniards advised the day following with the chiefes of the Army what course was best to bee taken with the Castle of Dunboy halfe ruined who were all of opinion that a Garrison which should be left there could not defend themselves or give any great annoyance to the Spaniard if they should fortune to land there for being so remote from all Seconds and succours were unavoydably left to ruine And besides though the Spaniards came not the service that they could doe in that Countrey would not countervaile Her Majesties charge in maintayning them Therefore they resolved to bestow the Powder which was recovered in the Castle to blow up the same committed to the charge of Captaine Slingsbie The two and twentyeth the Castle of Dunboy was accordingly blowne up with Powder the out-Workes and Fortifications utterly destroyed and the same day Lieutenant Downings with our men and Boates returned from the Dorses to the Campe as also twelve of Terrills chiefe men formerly spoken of were executed But Taylor and Dominicke Collins the Fryer were carryed Prisoners to Corke where being found by due proofe that Taylor was one of the principall murderers of his Captaine George Bingham at Sâ—igo besides an infinite number of other foule and traytorly 〈◊〉 he was shortly after without the City of Corke not farre from the North Gate hanged in chaines and the Fryer in whom no penitence appeared for his detestable treasons nor yet would endeavour to merite his life either by discovering the Rebells intentions which was in his power or by doing of some service that might deserve favour was hanged at Youghall the Towne wherein he was borne The same day also all our carriage and baggage layed aboard at the enterance into our boats because wee were not able to carie the Cowes Horses and Mares which wee had taken being at least sixe or seven hundred heads the President commanded they should bee killed which was performed The three and twentieth wee shipped our whole Army backe from Dunboy who all arrived that day in the great Iland and from thence the Earle of Thomond and Sir Charles Wilmot and both their Regiments were transported by shipping to Killaminog being the place wee encamped in as wee went in Mainterbaie The same day the Lord President was advertised by Lieutenant Saunders that hee had taken a great boat belonging to Teg Mac Connor Odriscall brother to Connor Oge Odriscall of the Downings wherein there was slaine Dary Mac Connor his brother and three more of his best men and that two dayes after hee tooke the strong place of the Downings which is seated upon a high rock in the Sea disioyned from the land so as there is no comming unto it but over a little draw bridge of wood resembling the seat of Dunluce in Vlster The foure and twentieth the Lord President and Sir Richard Percy with their Regiments were embarqued aâ—d they arrived in the evening at the Iland of Whiddy where wee had no meanes for want of boats to unship our men and the night approaching were enforced to leaue our two Regiments a shipboard and the Lord President lay that night in the Iland The fiue and twentieth the Earle and Sir Charles with their Regiments marched by land from Killaminog to the old camping place at Carew Castle whither when the boats came to us wee unshipt the remayne of the Army and there wee encamped all that night The sixe and twentieth the Companies required by the Lord Deputie were assigned and commanded to prepare themselues and attend Sir Samuell Bagâ—all till hee brought them to his Lordship and the same day the Castle of Leamâ—con neere Crooke haven which the rebels warded was recovered from them by an officer and party of men of Captaine Roger Harvies Company The seven and twentieth the Earle of Thomond and Sir George Thornton were embarqued in the Queenes Pinnace to goe for England and the Army dislodged from Carew Castle and marched to a place in the Mountaine called Becarien Eltagh where wee encamped that night The eight and twentieth the Lord President departed thence taking the Captaines and Officers of those companies that were to goe into Vlster along with him that they might perclose their accounts and dispatch all things at Corke against their Companies should come thither and by the way the Castle of Lettertinlesse belonging to Conogher Sir Finnin Odriscals Sonne where the Enemy had a ward of seventeene men after some defence made and shot discharged when they saw the Army drawe before the Castle they sued for their liues which granted them they yeelded it up and after the Souldiers had made pillage of the goods wee burned and destroyed the Castle and stone hall and rod thence to Tymolagg leaving the Army behind us
penall Statutes as also of obligations and Recognizances taken made or acknowledged before the said L President and Councell or any of them within the limits of their authorities and Commission for apparance or for the peace or good abearing or by reason of any speciall Statute whatsoever then made or to be made And shall also have authority to cesse reasonable fines for any offences whereof any person shall happen to bee convicted before the said Lord President and Councell and such Summes of mony as shall grow or come by reason of any such compositions or Fines they shall cause it to bee entred into a booke subscribed with the hands of the said Lord President and Councell or two of them at the least whereof the Lord President to bee one To the end the Queenes Majestie may be answered of the same accordingly And also upon such compositions made of Fine or Fines set as aforesaid shall have authority to cancell or make voyde all such Obligations and Bonds And also the said Lord President shall cause as much as in him lyeth all Writts or Processes sent or to bee sent to any person or persons inhabiting or being within the precinct of his Commission out of the Kings Bench Chaunceâ—â—e or Exchequer or any other Court of Record diligently to bee observed and effectually to bee obeyed according to the tenor of the same And if hee shall find negligence slacknesse or willfull omission in any Officer or other Minister to whom the delivery or serving of such Processe doth appertaine Hee shall punish the same severely according to the greatnesse and qualitie of the offence And it shall bee lawfull for the said Lord President and Councell or any three of them whereof the Lord President to bee one after examination in the causes necessary upon vehement suspition and presumption of any great offence in any partie committed against the Queenes Majestie to put the said partie so suspected to tortures as they thinke convenient and as the cause shall require and also to respitt Iudgement of death upon any person convicted or attainted before him and that Councell for any treason murder or any other felony Or after Iudgement given to stay execution untill such time as hee shall certifie us the Lord Deputie and Councell of his doings and consideration of the same and receiue answere from us thereof Provided alwayes that the same certificate bee made to us the Lo Deputie and Councell within the space of 21 dayes after such thing is done Also if any Inquest within the precinct of their Commission within Liberties or without being sworne and charged upon triall of any fellonie murder or any like offender whatsoever hee bee having good and pregnant evidence for sufficient proofe of the matter whereof the said offendor shall bee accused indicted or arraigned doe utterly acquite such offendor contrary to the said evidence that then the said Lord President and Councell or any two of them whereof the Lord President to bee one shall examine such perjuries as well by deposition of witnesses as by all other kinde of proofes by their discretions and if the said Inquest bee convicted before the said Lord President and Councell or three of them at the least wherof the Lord President to be one the said Lord President and Councell may and shall proceed to the punishment of such offence by fine imprisonment or wearing of papers or standing on the pillorie as by their discretions shall seeme meet Also wee the said Lord Deputie and Councell doe earnestly require and straightly charge the said Lord President and Councell that they at all times and in all places where any great assembly shall bee made before them doe perswade the people by all good meanes and wayes to them seeming good and especially by their owne examples in observing all Orders for Divine Service and other things appertaining to Christian Religion and to embrace forlow and devoutly to obserue the Order and Service of the Church established in the Realme by Parliament or otherwayes by lawfull authoritie and earnestly to call upon and admonish all Bishops and Ordinaries within the precinct of their Commission diligently fervently and often to doe the same And if the Lord President and Councell shall finde them negligent and unwilling or unable to doe the same That then they shall advertise the Lord Deputie and Councell thereof and they shall call earnestly upon the Bishops severely to proceed according to the censuring of the church against all notorious Advowterers and such as without lawfull divorce doe leaue their Wiues or whilest that their lawfull Wife liveth doe marry with any other and the Sentence pronounced by the Bishop or Ordinarie upon the offendor The said Lo President and Councell shall endeavour themselues to the uttermost that they conveniently may to cause the same Sentence to bee put in execution according to the Lawes And if they shall finde the Ordinarie slacke or remisse in this duetie and not doing according to his Office they shall punish or cause to bee punished the same Bishop or Ordinary according to their discretions Also the Lord President and Councell shall examine the decay of all parish Churches and through whose defaults the same be decayed and to proceed to the procuring or informing of such as ought to repaire any Church or Churches with all convenient speed according to their discretions And in cases where her Majestie shall bee after due and advised inquisition found by reason of her possessions bound to repaire the same Churches In those cases advertisement shall bee given to us the Lord Deputie c. Or if they shall know of any that shall spoyle rob or deface any Church they shall with all sincerity proceed to the punishment of the Offenders according to the Lawes Statutes and Ordinances of this Realme or according to their discretions They shall assist and defend all Arch-Bishops Bishops and all other ecclesiastical Ministers in the ministery of their function and in the quiet possessing of their Landes rents services and hereditaments and shall punish the with-holders intruders and usurpers of the same according to their discretions and the quality of the offence They shall also giue earnest charge for the observation of all Lawes and Statutes or Ordinances made or to be made for the benefit of the Common-wealth and punishment of malefactors and especially the Statute for the Hue and crie for Night-watches and for Weights and Measures to be diligently considered and severely put in execution Also the said Lord President shall haue and retaine one Chaplin or Minister that shall and can preach and reade the Homilies who shall bee allowed his Dyet in the Houshold of the sayd Lord President and shall receiue his entertainment to bee payed out of the Fines growing in that Province to whom the Lo President shall cause due reverence to be given in respect of the Office that he shall haue for the Service of God Also the said Lo Deputie and
Councell will that the sayd Lord President and Councell or two of them at least whereof the Lord President to bee one shall endeavour themselues to execute as well all and all manner Statues of this Realme Proclamâ—tions and to doe and execute all other Lawes and Statutes of this Realme and other Ordinances as to punish the transgressors of the same according to the said Statutes Ordinances and Proclamations And to leavie or cause to be leavied all and all manner of forfeitures contained in the same according to the order limitted by the sayd Lawes And if cause so require shall compound for reasonable causes for all and singular such forfeitureâ— and paines by their discretions Having therein regarde not to diminish the â—ines specially limited by the Lawes without great necessitie of the poverty of the parties to be ioyned with repentance and disposition of amendment in the partie for otherwise it is perâ—llous to giue example in weakening the iust terror of good Lawes Also the Lord President and Councell or two of them wherof the Lord President to be one shall and may assesse and taxe Costs and dammages aswell to the Plaintiffe as to the Defendant and shall awarde Executions for their doings Decrees and Orders And shall punish the Breakers of the same being parties therevnto by their discretions And the said Lord President and Councell shall immediately upon their repaire to some convenient place where they meane to reside within the Limits of their Commission appointing two sufficient men to bee Clearkes oâ— Attornies to that Councell for the making of Bils Answers and Proceses for all manner of Subiects and thâ—râ—n not multiply such Officers leâ—t also they be occasioÌ„ to multiply unnecessary suites and some trusty wise persons to examine witnesses betweene partie and partie which of necessitie would be chosen with good advise foreseeing expresly and charitably that no excessiue fees be by any of them taken of the Subiects but that their fees bee assessed by the Lord President and Councell and the same faire written upon a Table and fixed upon some publike place where the same may be seene and understood of all Suitors and that in the beginning the Fees may appeare and be meane and reasonable So as in no wise the prosecution of releefe by way of Iustice bee not so chargeable as the poore oppressed sort bee thereby discouraged to make their complaints And because it shall bee convenient that a Register bee daily kept for all the doings orders decrees and proceedings which from time to time shall passe by the said Lo. President and Councell The Lord Deputie and Councells pleasure is that the Clarke of the sayd Councell for the time being having reasonable allowance for the same of the parties having an interest thereby shall diligently execute and performe this charge without any further expences then shall bee specially directed unto him by the said Lord President to be sustained by her Majesties Subjects for enteries of Actes and Orders c. Also the said Lord Deputie and Councell haue thought it convenient that there shall bee one honest and sufficient man appointed to bee Clarke and receiver of the Fines at the nomination of the sayd Lord President who shall diligently and orderly keepe a Booke of all such Fines as shall bee taxed upon any person the fine to bee alwayes entred by the hand of the Lord President and shall haue full power to send out Processe for any person upon whom any such fine shal be so seased and to receiue all such fines and in every Michaelmasâ— Terme thereof to make a true and perfect account before the Barons and other Officers of the Queenes Majesties Exchequer for the time being to the end we may be assertained what fines haue bin acquired to the Queenes Majestie and how the same haue been imployed Provided alwayes and it shall be lawfull for the said Lord President and Councell to imploy of the said Fines reasonable summes for reward of Messengers and repairing the Queenes castles and houses and in building and reedifying Goales within each Countie in the precinct of their Commission where by Lawes of the Realme no other persons are thereto bound and chargeable and also for furnishing of necessary utensils for the houshold as to the said L. President and Councell or to any two of them whereof the Lord President to bee one shall seeme neâ—dfull and convenient In all which the said Lord President shall haue regard to moderate those allowances as of the Fines assessed and levied the Queenes Maiestie may be answered some reasonable yeerely Sommes towards her great chardges in maintaining of this Councell the same being to the Crowne of England a new chardge and any warrantmeÌ„t signed by the said Lord President or any one of the Councell for any such Somme or Soms shall be a sufficient dischardge to the said Clearke our Receiver of the said Fines for the issuing of the said Sommes And the said Clearke or Receiver shall haue full power for the sending out of Processe against any person upon whom any such Fine shall be cessed and to haue his Processe gratis from the Clearke of the Signet and hee to haue his diet in the house of the said Lord President and to bee accounted one of the number of this Horsemen and to receiue the wages and entertainement due for the same Also the said Lord Deputie and Councell haue thought meete there shall be a continuall housholde kept within the precinct and limits of the Commission aforesaid in such place as to the Lord President shall seeme most convenient All servants necessary for which houshold shall be at the Nomination of the said Lord President In which house each Councellor bound to continuall attendance and attending shall bee allowed their diets and the clearke of the Councell and every other Councellor being either sent for or comming for any needfull busines for the Queene or countrey shall be allowed during their aboad there their diet And for the more honourable porte of the said Houshold there shall be allowed unto the said Lord President and Councell after the rate of ten pounds sterling by the weeke to bee imployed upon the Table chardges of the said Household halfe yeerely to bee received at the hands of the Vice-treasurer and generall Receiver of the Queenes Maiesties revenewes of this Realme for payment of which there shall remaine in the hands of the said Vice-treasurer who is also Treasurer for the Warres as Warrant dormant whereby the said Vice-treasurer shall be authorized to pay to the said Lord President one halfe yeeres allowance alwayes before hand towards the making his necessary provision out of the revenew Or if he shall not haue sufficient Treasure then out of any other Treasure the said Lord President shall nominate and appoint one discreete and sufficient man of his servants to bee Steward or clearke of the same Houshold who shall weekely write and summe the chardges thereof and the same also shall
side there was but one man slaine not aboue fiue hurt whereof Pierce Butler a kinseman of the Earles was one who behaved himselfe valiantly and about foureteene taken Prisoners and of the Enemy was one slaine and a few hurt the Prisoners were taken by their owne negligence who were grazing their horses The taking of this great Lord breeds unsetled humors in these parts for all the Gentlemen of the countrey whereof some of them were his true followers for want of a Defender are wavering others which in their owne dispositions were naught and contained themselues as Subiects but for feare of his power are now at liberty and we feare will shortly declare themselues To keepe them from present uproares I the President did immediately send for sixe hundred Foote of the Mounster Companies which were at Watterford the hundred Horse which were in the countrey to the Towne of Kilkenny which hath wrought good effect and staied the unsetled humors besides thereby it did assure the Lady of Ormond and her daughter which otherwise had beene subiect to many dangers so sorrowfull a Lady in all our liues vvee haue not seene and doe beleeue that if it had not pleased God that we at that time had beene there she would hardly haue undergone those griefes that did oppresse her For besides the losse of her husband in being Prisoner with those rogues she beheld the apparant ruine of her selfe and her daughter and no lesse danger of both their liues the Guard vvhereof she committed unto us not being assured of those that serue her for there is divers that pretend to bee the Earles Heires First Sir Edmond Butler his second Brother which Sir Walter Butler the Earles Nephew whose blood is not attainted vvill not yeeld unto because his Vncle Sir Edmond is not restored in blood And the Vicount Mountgarret thinks that he ought to be Earle of Ormond for many reasons vvhich he pretends This controversie could not but breed great danger to the Countesse and her daughter for that either of those vvould bee glad to possesse themselues in the Earles houses and the doubt vvho is to succeede him breeds unsetled humors in the Gentlemen of the countrey that bee follovvers to the Earle every one addicting himselfe to the partie they affect vvhereby there is a generall distraction vvhich vvould haue broken out into a dangerous Rebellion if the Forces and vve had not beene heere to keepe them in awe Besides we did not neglect to send for all the Lords and Gentlemen in the countrie that are of the best quality and haue temporized with them So as we hope the dangers which were like to ensue will be for a time well appeased Also understanding that Balliragget a house of the Lord Mountgarets in the which there is a Warde for the Queene kept as a Pledge for his loialty that the same was attempted to be wonne by the Vicecounts sonnes who are in rebellion And immediately upon the Earles taking lay before it in hope to starue the Souldiers for their last daies victuals was spent I the President did take up in Kilkenny upon my credit victuals and with a strong convoy of Horse and Foote haue revictualled it for sixe weekes whereof the Lord Deputy is advertised praying him to be carefull before that victuall be spent And because that all things might be continued in good order We thought good to remaine in Kilkenny untill the Lord Deputy should determine of some course so to hold it for her Maiesties benefit the countries good and the Countesse and her daughters safetie wherein we were enforced to make large disbursements of our small stores for dieting in that time of the horse and foote Troopes whereof I the Earle defrayed the charges of my owne Company of two hundred Foote and I the President of all the rest during our abode there which was eight dayes In this meane time wee understanding that Mountgarrets sonnes which are in rebellion did come to spoile the countrie neere to Kilkenny We sent out some part of our Troopes who lighted upon some of their men And amongst them which they slew there was one of the Butlers a neere kinsman to Mountgarret and a Leader slaine and the Traitors driven to their Woods being enforced to leaue their enterprize The sixteenth of this present Sir George Bourchier and Sir Christopher St Lawrence sent from the Lord Deputie came to Kilkenny Sir George for chiefe Commander of her Majesties Forces there and to take charge of the Countesse her Daughter and the Earles Houses and Sir Christopher to bee directed by him The Forces there left is two hundred Foote of the Earles other two hundred Foote of Sir Christophers thirtie Foot left in a ward in Mountgarretts house called Balliraggett eightie fiue Horse whereof fiftie of the Earles fiue and twentie of St Lawrences and tenne of Sir George Bourchiers Since the Earles taking wee kept the Rebells from doing any hurt in the Countrey neither as yet is there any in rebellion in the same but Mountgarrets sonnes whose force is not such but in our opinions without they call strangers to assist them her Majesties Forces there is much too strong for them The seventeenth wee left Kilkenny and came to this Cittie leaving Sir George Bourcheir as aforesaid This accident hath withheld mee the President from my peculiar charge more then I purposed but therein I hope your Lordships will hold mee excused being other wayes so necessarily imployed in these causes of so great importance whereof I humbly beseech your Lordshipps in your wisedomes to haue due consideration To morrow wee proceed in our Iourney towards Corke from whence with the rest of the Councell there wee will advertize your Lordships in what estate wee finde the Province not being able heere to certifie your Honours so particularly as then wee may So wee humbly take our leaues From Waterford the eighteenth of Aprill 1600. Strange it was to consider how much this misfortune distracted the minds of sundrie that before were inclined to subjection and greatly animated the Traitors to persevere in their wicked enterprises which might evidently be seene in Pierce Lacy a wise and malicious Traytor who being but few dayes before upon the Earles protection promising great loyaltie and much service did presently relapse and became a more dangerous Rebell then at any time before But now leaving farther discourse of former occurrents we will betake our selues wholly to prosecute the relation of such things as happened in Mounster after the Lord President came to Waterford which was the sixteenth of Aprill For the prosecution of the Service in which Province by order out of England the List as aforesayd for Mounster was established to be three thousand Foot and two hundred and fiftie Horse After his repaire thither Intelligence came unto him that the Titularie Earle of Desmond with the greatest part of his Forces was remaining not farre from Yoghall about Drumâ—inin with intent to giue impediment
long after the receit of this Letter hee left the Countie of Limericke severed himselfe from the Mounster Rebells and setled in Ormond and Tirrell stayed not long behinde inwardly doubting some practise upon himselfe but publikely pretending the cause of his departure for a mislike betweene him and Dermond O Conner The President had given foorth ever since his first comming to Corke that his Armie should bee on foot in the way to Limerick by the sixth of May his intention not being to rise untill the twentieth the bruit thereof caused the Rebells greatest strength to assemble together who by the day assigned had united their Forces in the great Wood called Kilmore betweene Moyallo and Kilmallock neere the place of Ballihawre through the which the Armie was to march There they continued the space of tenne dayes attending continually and hearkening daily for the Presidents comming but finding that hee stirred not in all this time imagining that he durst not take the field at all they dispersed their Companies and departed every one into his owne Countrey Heereupon some thought that the President had altered his determination for going to Limerick and intended to begin the prosecution in some other place others supposed that hee would not venture out of Corke untill hee had received new Supplies which were daily expected out of England But both the one and other were besides the marke for by this stay which from the beginning he determined hee saw divers commodious opportunities might accrue unto him as that heereby hee should receiue certaine advertisement of the strength of the enemy that was to confront him and also that it was impossible for them any long time to hold together for divers wants which of necessitie must accompany such an undisciplined and disordered multitude by meanes whereof they would bee constrained to breake with their owne weight wherein he nothing failed of his expectation for within a few dayes following they were all divided into so many places and those so farre distant that they could not speedily be reassembled Vpon the sixteenth of May the President was advertised by Sir Richard Percie who was Governour at 〈◊〉 that by his Horsemen in Kinalmekagh whom he had sent to forrage that Country ten of the Bownoghs were slaine and a farre greater slaughter had beene made of them if Florence Mac Cartie had not had some intelligence out of Kinsale of his intention who gaue the Bownoghs warning of their comming whereupon they fled and dispersed themselues Vpon the seventeenth of May Iames fits Thomas the usurping Earle of Desmond wrote a Letter to Florence Mac Cartie praying the ayde of his Forces the Copie whereof is here inserted A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie AFter my very heartie Commendations Having received Intelgence of your happie escape out of Corke it was very joyfull to mee and many other your Cosens and adherents heere the fruit of your conference with the President and the rest I hope shall purchase ripe experience and harvest of further knowledge to cut off the cruell yoke of bloody enemies who daily studie to worke our perpetuall destruction and exile I am given to understand that they pretend a journey towards the Countie of Limerick I am gathering the best force and rising out of these parts to resist their wicked desires Redmond Burke is bordering on the Confines of Ormond expecting to heare from me if occasion of important service should require I haue the other day received his Letters signifying his constant service to be ready whensoever I shall send to him what news you haue with your best advice in all causes tending to our generall Service I expect to heare and if the President doe rise out as it is thought I pray you good Cosen slacke not time with your best Force Provision of victuals to prosecute him freshly in the Reareward as you respect me the exaltation of the Catholike faith and the ease of our countrey I looke no excuse at your hands which I pray to lay apart wherein you shall further the service and bind me with all my Forces to second you at your need I haue retained Dermond Oconner in Kerry two hundred Souldiers this quarter besides the Clanshihies and other Bonoghs with the rising out of my country so as I think I shall make up sixteen or seventeene hundred strong well appointed together with the Force of Redmond Burke Thus for lacke of farther Novelties I commit you to the blessed guiding of God From Crome the seventeenth of May 1600. I am credibly informed that fiue Spanish ships are landed in the North with Treasure Munition and great Ordinance with a competent number of three thousand Souldiers Pioners and religious persons I expect every day advertisement in writing and the comming up of Captaine Terrell with the Munition sent me by Oneyle I appointed your Cosen Maurice Oge Fits Maurice Gerald to haue the charge of Kierrycorrie I pray you afford him your lawfull favour Your most assured Cosen Iames Desmond The same day Captaine Gawen Harvy who then had in her Majesties pay a man of Warre wherein for the payment of the Armie there was three thousand pound in monie Munition Victuals and Souldiers apparrell set saile with direction for the River of Shenan to meete the Lord President at Limericke The President the twentie one of May left Corke and with his Armie incamped that night within three miles of Moyallo The twentie two they lodged within fiue miles of Kilmallocke the twentie three the Armie came within a mile of Kilmallocke where the white Knight according to his former promises made his humble submission unto the President whereby the Faggot began to unloose which combined the Rebellion in Mounster but let us a little looke backeward CHAP. VI. Cahir Castle surprized by Iames Galdie Butler A letter from Iames Galdie Butler to the Lord President The rendring of the Castle of Loghguyrre Nugents attempt upon Iohn fits Thomas â—lanwilliam spâ—yled and burnt by the Armie THe President being at Yoghall in his journey to Corke sent Sir Iohn Dowâ—all an ancient Captaine in Ireland to Cahir Castle as well to see the same provided of a sufficient Ward out of Captaine George Blunts Companie as to take order for the furnishing of them with Victuall Munition and other warlike Provision there hee left the eighth or ninth of May a Sergeant with nine and twenty Souldiers and all necessary Provision for two moneths who notwithstanding upon the three and twentieth of the same were surprized by Iames Galdie alias Butler brother to the Lord of Cahir and as it was suspected by many pregnant presumptions not without the consent and working of the Lord himselfe which in after times proved to be true The carelesse securitie of the Warders together with the treachery of an Irish-man who was placed sentinell upon the top of the Castle were the causes of this Surprize Iames Galdie had no
the meane time hee would keepe him in safetie and accomodate all things for the more assurance in the effecting of the busines To Kilmallock he came the next Morrow the twentieth of Iune with one thousand Foote and two Troopes of Horse for a good part of his Armie was at that time gone into Thomond to secure the same from Odonnell who was come farre up into the Countrey and had taken many preyes there CHAP. VIII The Countrey of Thâ—mond harassed and spoyled by O Donnell Forces sent into Thâ—mond Iames fits Thomas set at Liberty Dermond O Conners Letter to the Lord President A Letter from the Mounster Rebels to O Donnell Dermond O Conner and the Rebels agreed and reconciled The Castle of Crome taken by the Armie A Ioyns Letter from William Burke and Morrogheny Moe O Flagharly to the Lord President A Letter from Morrogheny Moe O Flagharly to the Lord President A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Carty THIS suddaine comming of Odonnell for Thomond was so secretly caried as the Earle of Thomond had no notice of it untill he was come to the Borders thereof hee then being at Limerick with the President prayed him to lend him part of his Armie to make Head against the Rebels Whereupon his Lordship commanded the Sergeant Major Captaine Flower and with eight hundred Foote and sixtie Horse to attend the Earle Odonnell entred the Countrey and Harassed all Thomond even as farre as Loopthead and tooke all the Preyes of the Countrey Neverthelesse he went not away scot free For the Noble Earle fought often with his Forces slew many of them and never left them untill he had recovered a great part of the Cattle which Odonnell had taken And upon Mid-somer day chased him out of Thomond This suddaine and unexpected comming of Odonnell with such great Forces as attended him could never haue beene undiscovered if the next Neighbours to Thomond the Inhabitants of Clanrickard had done their dueties through which Countrey Odonnell passed and returned without doing of any hurt that ever I heard of And so leaving with this Digression it is time to speake of the Successe of the vsurping Earles apprehension By this time it was suspected and publikely noised abroad that the Sugan Earle should bee delivered to the President which Rumour began first to bee bruited in Limerick and Kilmallock and as it alwayes hapneth in that Kingdome from the Townes the rumour is speedily conveied into the Countrey which being no sooner heard then beleeved by the Rebels as well Provincials as others they all combined themselues Iohn fits Thomas Pierce Lacy and William Burke being the Triumviri of this League to set the Prisoner at Libertie With this determination they had gathered together of Dermonds Bonoghs and Provincials some foure thousand men nee re Castle Leshin in the great Fastnesse of Conniloe for there was this Castle seated with intent both to blocke up the way that the President should take in comming thither and to constraine the Ward to deliver the Earle The President being at Kilmallock as aforesaid hourely expecting the comming of the Lady Margaret stayed there from the twentieth to the twentie sixth day and in all that time he never heard from her or her Husband Vpon the twentie sixth the Lady Margaret came to him shee related that Castlelishin was besieged by the Rebels her cause of stay was the danger of the way Immediately the President notwithstanding the rest of his Forces were not returned out of Thomond purposed to raise the Siedge and the Armie being drawen forth before they had marched an English mile upon the way they met a Messenger who delivered unto them for certaine that Iames fits Thomas was rescued that morning and himselfe did see him out of the Castle In Castlelishin where Iames fits Thomas was prisoner Dermond O Conner with the Ward had left a Priest whose perswasions prevailed so much with O Conners men as they delivered the reputed Earle as aforesaid but upon Caution as may appeare by Dermond O Conners Letters to the President as followeth Dermond O Conners Letter to the Lo. President MY good Lord it is so that contrary to my directions and without my privitie my Ward at Castlelishin was hardly set unto by the Enemy after the breach of the Castle were constrained to yeeld to the surrender of the Earle of Desmond upon Composition viz. to receiue as pledges from the said Earle his sonne and his Receiver one Gerald fits Nicholas and the chiefe of the Walles or Faltaghs of Downmoylin and Iohn fits Thomas Brother of the said Earle to bee delivered into the hands of Mac Cartie More or some other indifferent man his hands as the said Earle and I shall agree heereof I thought good to certifie your Honour assuring the same upon my credit that this Composition was made without my privitie as your Honour shall understand manifestly heereafter to the end your Honour might bee advised not to send the Armie for feare of any mischance in respect of the greatnesse of the Enemies forces and fastnesse of their strengths the Earle being inlarged all which I hope to bring to a worse case then they were in and that in a short time if I be well furthered by your Lordship the manner whereof I am ready to declare to your Honour as occasion shall serue for speedy effecting whereof I pray your Lordship to send me your best advice by Captaine Power the which expecting forthwith I humbly take my leaue Balliallinan this 26. of Iune 1600. Your Honours to command Dermond O Conner The reason which I conceiue mooved Dermond that hee did not presently render him to the President was partly his feare that his money would bee detained from him when the prisoner was once delivered and therefore hee would bee first sure of the same partly his over much confidence in his men whom hee thought that they would not for a world haue betrayed him as they did but especially I conceiue that the danger of the way was the occasion of the protraction for undoubtedly the man did meane to performe his promise sincerely and if the Lady could haue come sooner to Kilmallocke the titularie Earle had been brought from Castlelishin without any difficultie Vpon the seven and twentieth Dermond O Conner wrote to the President praying to bee excused that hee did not come unto him for the wayes were too dangerous for him to passe untill his Brother who was in Desmond with foure hundred men did come unto him or that the Enemy did scatter or the President with his Armie should draw into those parts and in the meane while he would remaine in the Castle where hee was and besought the President to send him a safeguard for himselfe his followers and goods protesting his loyaltie to her Majestie and promising to bee directed by the President in whatsoever it should please him to commaund Within a few dayes after the delivery
a Protestant was the onely cause that bred this coynesse in them all for if hee had been a Romish Catholike the hearts and knees of all degrees in the Province would haue bowed unto him Besides his comming was not well liked by the Vndertakers who were in some jealousie that in after times he might be restored to his Fathers Inheritances and thereby become their Lord and their Rents now payed to the Crowne would in time be conferred upon him These considerations assured the President that his personall being in Mounster would produce small effects but onely to make tryall what power hee had CHAP. XV. The juggling of Florence Mac Cartie Supplies of Men and Apparell sent into Mounster The submission of Florence Mac Cartie A skirmish betweene the Mac Carties and the Oleries Olery slaine A Letter from Redmond Burke to the Lord President THE President attempted by his meanes the getting of Castle Mange a Castle of her Majesties in the which before and at the beginning of the Warre shee had a Ward surprised by the supposed Desmond and left by him in the custodie of Thomas Oge as aforesaid which by his negotiation with the said Constable was at last rendred unto him together with Pierce Lacie his two sonnes which were kept as pledges therein and this was all the service that hee did or could doe during his abode in Ireland And that worke of his Florence Mac Cartie used all his wit and policie to prevent and overthrow for at the very instant when Thomas Oge who had the keeping of Castle Mange and Pierce Lacies sonnes as pledges therein had faithfully assured the yeelding up thereof and of the aforesaid Pledges to the Lord President Florence being then entertained by the President in his house at Moyallo and as fast bound unto him by many benefits and favours as Florence was by the strongest oathes and vowes that any Christian could be obliged by gott some secret hint that Castle Mange was by Thomas Oge to be yeelded up to her Majestie who well foreseeing what reputation it would bring to Desmond and how much it would make up towards the hastening of his owne ruine if that Fort were once regained and an English Garrison placed there he presumed and that in the Presidents owne house where he was so graciously used and entertained to write his effectuall and earnest Letters to the said Thomas Oge assuring him that Redmond Burke and Captaine Tirrell were on their way with great Forces to set Mounster on fire againe disswading him from keeping his promise with the President and the young Earle of Desmond promising and binding his promises with damnable oathes that he would presently revictuall the Ward of Castle Mange for three moneths pay them the Arrear of all their vvages and that he would giue Thomas Oge and his Heires for ever six Plowlands of his owne Inheritance so he would not deliver up Castle Mange And these Letters were by the watchfulnesse of Master Boyle intercepted and delivered to the President And from thenceforward after Florence knew his Letters were intercepted and his treacheries more and more discovered But all this while it was a world to see how Florence plaied fast and loose betweene the President and the Governour of Kerry For when the President sent to haue him come to him then he answered that he was within few dayes to meete with the Governour of Kerry by a former appointment if Sir Charles sent for him then he was shortly to repaire to the President and so deluding both he would come to neither His stay was as we haue shewed because he purposed to stand out and for that cause had the last Moneth before planted as it was reported some number of Bownoghs in his Countrey but the governors people upon one side and these his Bownoghs on the other side had by this time so harried and consumed his Countrey as he found the same unable longer to maintaine his Mercenaries and therefore delayed with good words to gaine longer time for it was commonly spoken among the Protectees and Captaine Taffe wrote so much to the President from Kilkenny that Redmond Burke and Captaine Tirrell with all the Forces they could gather in Connaght and Linster would make an other incursion into Mounster so soone as the Lord Deputie should returne from the North which was expected very shortly because the time of the yeare would breed many difficulties and inconveniences in his longer stay Whether it were this bruite or the hearking after a Ship to arriue in those parts which might transport him beyond Seas that occasioned his delatory excuses I know not But sure I am that they proceeded not from any loyall or dutifull mind The beggerly Earle in the meane time lurked in the Woods with some two or three in his Company sometimes in Arlogh sometimes in Drumfinnin but most in the Countie of Typperrarie where hee had much kindred by his Mothers side The President had intelligence every day where hee lodged the night before but never untill he was departed and had left the place not but that the Countrey could haue reported aswell where he is as where he had beene but they were possessed with such a superstitious folly so terrified with the Priests Thunderbolts of Excommunication as they adjudged him unavoidably damned that should ruinate such a principall Piller of the Catholike action And Fits Maurice was in little better case for although since his returne into Mounster himselfe with the Knight of the Glyn had assembled some fower score in the Faâ—tnesse of Clanmorris who guarded their Corne that should maintaine them for the yeere following Yet Sir Charles Wilmot marching twelue miles through their Woods being directed by a trusty Guid came suddenly upon them and slew sixtie of them the two Principals escaping very narrowly After the killing ended they scowâ—ed the Woods and finding great store of Corne therein they burnt the same and returned with the Armes of all the dispersed Kerne Pierce Lacy had so well bestirred himselfe in his negotiation with those of Ormond and Ossery that of the Ormond and Ossery men with the Purcels Omaghers he had reinforced himselfe with fiue hundred men and being now joyned with Redmond Burke who had one thousand Foote and sixtie Horse as was credibly informed drew their Forces into O Carrels Countrey threatning daily to invade the small Countie of Limerick which bordered upon them but their stay as was reported depended upon the returne of Iohn of Desmond who was expected with Forces out of the North. But Tyrone was so well set a worke by the honourable painefull and prosperous proceedings of the Lord Deputie as hee had enough to doe in defending his owne Countrey much lesse could he spare any Forces for other parts In September last mention is made that the Lords of the Councell had promised to send unto the President sixe hundred Foote for the supplying of his Armie which accordingly arrived at Corke
as appeareth by the Presidents Letters written to then Lordships dated the fiue and twentieth of this Moneth of October and with them three hundred and fiftie Winter suites of apparell But to returne againe to Florence Mac Cartie after all the tergiversations before mentioned and many other too tedious to be inserted finding all his Neighbours to haue submitted themselues and his owne Followers so much impoverished by the Warres desirous to doe the like was contented Tandem aliquando to repaire to the President lying at Moyallo bringing some forty Horse in his Company and himselfe in the middest of his Troope like the great Turke amongst his Ianisaries drew towards the House the nine and twentieth of October like 〈◊〉 higher by the head and shoulders then any of his Followers upon his submission the President as having forgotten all former matters gaue him kind entertainement being indeed heartily glad of his preâ—ence as hoping thereby thaâ— these Warres of Mounster were brought to a finall end to secure him therefore to the State the President demanded his Eldest Sonne in pledge who being unable to take so long a Iournie by the indisposition of his body as Florence protested he left two others the one his base Brother who had spent many yeeres in France Spaine and Hungary and the other his foster Brother both which he had in very precious esteeme Florence requested that those pledges might suffice for the O Sulevans the O Donoghes the O Crowlieâ— and Omaghon Carbry But hereunto the President would by no perswasion bee drawen to condiscend and that especially for two causes the one was that hereby he might draw from Florence this great rabble of Dependants and the second was because every of these being compelled to put in pledges for themselues the Queene might haue the stronger assurance of these wavering and slippery Subjects The Province being reduced to this passe as you haue heard the Irish having now no other Enemy to oppugne beginne to goe together by the eares amongst themselues for certaine of Donoghe Moyle Mac Cartie sonne to Sir Owen Mac Cartie Reughe his people following the track of some Cowes that had beene stollen from them into Muskerry the Oleries assembled themselues to the number of one hundred or thereabouts and following the Carties who were by this time returned into Carbery at last overtooke them and without many words gaue the On-set the other stoutly resisted betweene whom there passed a short but a sharpe skirmish wherein were slaine Olerie the Head of that Sept and ten other the chiefe of his family with some more of lesse note and of the Carties Finin Mac Owen his Brother dangerously wounded with some few slaine of his part Cormock Mac Dermond Lord of Muskery much grieved with the slaughter of the Oleries his Followers was an earnest Sutor to the Councell that he might be permitted to revenge this losse upon the Carties in Carbery some there were that thought it not unfit to accord unto his demands because which party soever should prevaile yet could not the Queene loose a good Subject But the President would by no meanes yeeld thereunto lest the hot prosecution of these particular grievances might kindle the coales of some further mischiefe in giving occasion of distast to the now reconciled Subjects Redmond Burke being weary of his vagabond life living like a Woolfe upon every one from whence he could take any thing or rather wittingly foreseeing the ruine and destruction of those his Confederats which were in rebellion of whose fortunes he was in all likelihood to be a Partaker wrote a Letter to the President dated the thirtieth of October which because it is but short I doe here insert A Letter from Redmond Burke to the Lord President RIght Honourable I doubt not the detestable and apparant wrong that the Earle of Clanrickard hath done mee is manifestly knowen to your Lordship already as I need not larger to expresse it but this I am sure that the tolleration thereof and that I would not otherwayes bin caused to runne this course and if there were any hope of redresse that I would long ere this be a Subject and will now shew my selfe worthy to be accepted if I be entertained and my Fathers Lands seized into your Honours hands till my Title be tryed This Countrey of Ely being in your Honours Province is a parcell to whom I make claime wherein I would expect your Honour to right me first And thus requesting your Honour to accept my service and favour my right I take leaue From Ely the thirtieth of October 1600. Your Honours as you please Redmond Letrim The President much misliking the tenour of his Letter as vvell for other reasons as for capitulating for the Countrey of Ely O Carrell before he had by his service merited any favour and lastly for the slight subscription Your Honours as you please returned him no Answer in writing utterly refusing any further traffique with him it being his custome not to deale with Traitors upon Conditions CHAP. XVI The Lord President sueth for a generall Pardon for the Provincialls The Submission of Thomas Oge Fits Gerald and the rendring of Castle Mâ—nge The Castle of â—â—stoell besieged and taken The Castle of the Dingle rendred In the beginning of November a strong castle in Connilogh which was held by Iames fits Thomas was surprized by our Forces so as hee had no other Castle at his devotion left but Castle Mange The fourth of November Thomas Oge fits Gerald Constable of Castle Mange for Iames fits Thomas having evermore had a better affection unto the young Earle of Desmond Iames lately sent by her Majestie into Ireland as hath been declared upon the Earles intreatie and perswasions came to Kilmallock and there made tender of the said Castle unto the Earle for her Majesties use The Earle the next day brought him to Moyallo to the President where hee made his submission and direction was sent to Sir Charles Wilmot for the receit of the said Castle Sir Charles Wilmott knowing that Fits Maurice the Lord of Lixnaw had onely one Castle called Listoell wherein to shelter himselfe finding no other meanes to compasse the same determined to besiedge it and intimated so much to the President by his Letters requesting his advice and allowance therein who returned answer That hee desired nothing more then to haue that Castle gotten for the Queene and for the manner left the managing thereof wholly to his discretion He sate downe before it upon the fifth of November attempting to get it by a Myne in the which after hee had wrought fiue or sixe dayes and brought it underneath the Castle wall being ready to make a bed for the placing of the powder suddainly the spring brake foorth in such abundance as that worke became fruitlesse thereupon new ground was sought which proved good the foundation of the Castle was undermined as farre as the middest of the Seller which
the Ward perceiving made humble suit to bee permitted to depart with their liues which Sir Charles absolutely refused but if they would simply render themselues the Castle and all things in it to his discretion hee would then stay further proceeding in his worke otherwise they might looke within very few howers to bee blowen up The Ward vvhich were eighteene in number came forth and upon their knees submitted themselues unto him whom hee caused to bee apprehended the women and small children hee suffered to depart of the weaponed men he hanged nine so many of ours being lost at the Siege which continued more then three weekes the residue hee detained untill he had acquainted the President with all these accidents who gaue present order for the execution of the rest for they had beene all of them formerly protected except one Sir Dermond Mac Brodie a Priest whose life was saved upon this occasion It fortuned that within this Castle at the rendring thereof there was unknowen to Sir Charles the Lord of Lixnawes eldest sonne being a child of fiue yeares of age the Warders upon their comming footh disarrayed this child of all his cloathes and having besmeared his face with dust and durt committed him to an old woman who bringing the Infant naked and disfigured at her backe conveyed him away without suspition Sir Charles receiving advertisement of this escape sent out some Souldiers and some Provincialls vvhom he most trusted for the recoverie of him but in vaine they all returned vvith lost labour at last hee bethought himselfe that peradventure some of the prisoners could direct him in the pursuit and questioning the Priest concerning the Child Hee answered that he could best resolue him for that himselfe had given direction to the vvoman where shee should bestow the child till shee might deliver him to his Father Why then saith Sir Charles will you not conduct mee to him Know you not that it is in my power to hang you or to saue you Yes and I assure you if you will not guide mee to the place where hee lieth hidden I vvill cause you to bee instantly hanged The Priest answered That it was all one to him whether hee dyed this day or to morrow but yet if hee might haue his Word for the sparing of his owne life and the childes hee would reveale his knowledge otherwayes the Governour might doe his pleasure Sir Charles though very unwilling to graunt the Priest his life yet the earnest desire hee had to gett the child into his hands caused him to agree thereto The Priest being put into a Hand-locke is sent with a Captaine and a good Guard of Souldiers about this businesse who guided them to a Wood sixe miles from the Castle by reason of thicke bryers and thornes almost unpassible in the middest whereof there is a hollow Cave within the ground not much unlike by description to Cacus his denne or the mouth of Avernus in vvhich desolate place they found that old vvoman and this young childe whom they brougt to the Governour and the Priest and childe wâ—re shortly after sent to the President In this Castle were gotten all the Lord of Lixnaw his goods besides store of provision for the Warre vvho were plentifully provided for sixe moneths with such kind of victuall as the Countrey yeeldeth and it was said that the Baron himselfe would haue set up his rest in this Castle which he held impregnable against any force the Cannon excepted but it should seeme his heart failed him no lesse then his expectation While these things were in doing Sir Richard Percy drew his Company forth of Kinsale into Kinalmekagh and there tooke a prey of two hundred Cowes and got the killing of some Rebels In the beginning of this Moneth William fits Gerald the Knight of Kerry came to the President with a Letter in his favour from Sir Charles Wilmot dated the thirtieth of October wherein he witnessed for him that ever since he was received under protection hee had demeanded himselfe not onely like a good Subject in doing no harme but that he had endeavoured to his uttermost to annoy the Enemy and had lately in token of his obedience delivered unto Sir Charles his Castle at the Dingle This testimony wrought so much with the President as hee vsed him very kindly and returned him home with great contentment Not long after the landing of the young Earle of Desmond in Ireland the minds of the Provincials were much distracted every one fearing what might be the successe thereof But after a little while it appeared that he was able to doe but little To the end that the Reader might see that at the first it did breed some distraction I doe here insert a Letter unto Tyrone from Cormocke Mac Dermond the Lord of the large Countrey of Muskry who was never personally in actuall Rebellion neither afore nor after the Spaniards arrivall the copie of which Letter came not to the Presidents hands untill the latter end of the yeere one thousand sixe hundred and two and he then pardoned wherein it doth evidently appeare what cancred hearts the better sort of Subjects did beare to the Crowne of England and the English government CHAP. XVII A Letter from Cormocke Mac Dermond unto Tyronâ— The Abbey of Ratâ—o burned and fourtiâ— of the Bonoghs slaine One thousand Bonoghs levied by Florence Mac Cartie Connaght and Vlster men change their Resolution for the invading of Mounster and thâ— cause why Dermond O Conner mâ—rdered by Theobald ne Long Burke A 〈◊〉 fâ—â—m the Eaâ—le of Clanrikaâ—d to Theobald ne Long. A Letter from Cormock Mac Dermond unto Tyrone I Haue received your Letter of the twentieth of September and doe thanke you for the great trust you repose in mee which by the helpe of God shall bee by mee discharged to the uttermost of my power But the English haue in these parts so much prevayled by the sinister false dealing of the Connaght men as the President hath taken Pledges of most of the Gentlemen and men of power in these parts And besides wee are so weake in men as that wee are out of necessitie constrained to yeeld to the yoke of the English Heretiques from the which wee pray God to deliver us according to our hearts desire and therefore doe hope you will beare with our present necessities being ready at all times to obey your directions when you shall bee able to send us helpe but because that we shall neither deceiue you or our selues we doe pray you to send us word what numbers you will send us and by what time that accordingly wee may make our selues ready to giue you our best assistance But of one thing I thinke good to giue you particular notice which is not to put any confidence in any of Mounster of the English Nation for whatsoever they professe or protest unto you they meane not to deale faithfully with us but will forsake us in our greatest need The
neweâ— of these parts are that the Sonne of Geralt the late Earle is arrived unto whom his Fathers old Followers doe much resort hee is an Heretike yet neverthelesse by the helpe of the English he will doe us great harme The right Earle of Desmond is forsaken of all men and not able to make Head and the lesse hope of his rising againe by the comming of young Iames who is the Queenes Earle and hath a Patent for his Earledome I pray your speedy Answer in the meane time I will dissemble with the President who deales sharpely with us the Letter which you sent with these to Mac Carty More I haue sent unto him by a Messenger of my owne who is lately agreed with the President and so we are deceived in him and therefore he is not to be firmely trusted with the commandement of all the Clan Carties Cormocke Cartie Sir Charles Wilmot in the meane time maâ—ching to an Abbey in Kerry called Ratho neere unto Lixnaw assoone as his Colours were descried was fired by the Enemy that lodged there from thence with his Horse onely he marched â—o Tralie where hee found one hundred Bonoghs of the Oâ—â—â—llies among whom was Moriertagh Mac Shighie and three or foure more of the lurking Earles chiefest Followers on horsebacke our Horse charged them the Horsemen by flight saved themselues but of the â—ooâ—e there was slaine about fourtie dead in the place the rest by the â—avour of a neighboâ—ring bogge and the Mountaine at hand escaped but all their Armes were left to our shares The perpetuall juggling which Florencâ— Mac Cartie continued towards the Lord President I haue so often touched as it needs no other proofe but for the better Testimonie of his ill â—ffection to the State even now when the Sugan Earle was in the estate of a fugitiue hiding himselfe from the sight of men Florence as the Lord President was advertised from Sir Charles Wilmot had raysed one thousand Bownoghs to bee placed upon Desmond foure hundred uâ—on Kerry and sixe hundred upon Carbry and concludes with these words Viz. assuredly hee purposeth to bee a Villaine though hee could be contented to liue in neutralitie as he doth if he could cary it cleanely Also at that time the Baron of Lixnaw who was banished Kerry was by him relieved in Desmond but obserue well I beseech you this wavering and unsetled companion who not knowing which way either to be a Subject or Rebell not many dayes afterwards as shall bee said came to the President with a smooth countenance full of Loyaltie but inwardly the same man hee had ever beene Nothing was more common now in Mounster then a bruite of the strangers from Connaght and Vlster comming to invade the Province with two thousand men and hereof the President received daily advertisement from the Earle of Thomond the Lord Barry Iustice Comerford and others and to verifie the same Pierce Lacy was come into the borders of Kilquig and had preyed Glanogre a Towne belonging to Sir George Bourchier Master of the Ordnance being a parcell of his Signiory and then in farme to Alexander Fitton this caused the President to assemble the greatest part of his Forces to Kilmallock attending there to behold what should become of this Cloud which threatned such a dangerous Tempest which at length vanished without any great disturbance for about the midst of this Moneth they withdâ—â—w themselues into Ormond within the Libertie of Tipperarie the cause why they departed before they had made any Bonfiers in Mounster which was their arrand as I haue since learned was two fould First because Redmond Burke could by no meanes bee drawen into the Province being in expectation of great favour from the President as appeareth by his Letters sent about this time which because it is but short and yet apparantly declareth this truth I thought not unfit here to bee recited in his owne words RIght Honourable I would long ere this be a Subject and will now shew my selfe worthy to be accepted if I be entertained and my Fathers Lands seized into your Honours hands till my Title bee tried this Countrey of Ely O Carrell being in your Honours Province is a parcell whereto I make claime wherein I would expect your Honour to right me first and thus requesting your Honour to accept my service and favour my right I take leaue this ninth of November 1600. Your Honours as you please Redmond Letrim The President to hold Redmond as I conceiue in some hope that hee might not joyne with the Northerne Forces then expected to come into Mounster returned him answer to this effect That his Demaunds seemed to bee somewhat reasonable and that hee was very sorry that it was not fully in his power to accomplish his request Notwithstanding there was no doubt but upon his Letters already dispatched to the Councell of England and to the Lord Deputie in his behalfe such order should bee taken as hee should hold himselfe well satisfied and surely whether the President dealt plainely and bona fide vvith the said Redmond or whether hee fed him vvith good vvords onely like a Courtier to serue his owne turne I know not but if I might deliver my poore opinion I thinke him to haue received some hard measure I meane in respect of his Fathers Lands upon whomsoever the fault lyeth but to returne This Redmond commanding the greatest part of the Forces now assembled depending this much upon the Presidents favour as by his Letter appeareth could by no allurements of these Mounster Rebels bee inticed to commit any outrage within that Province An other cause why these Rebels thus assembled came no further up into Mounster was because the wandring Earle Iames fits Thomas who should haue given them Bonnaght in the Province knowing that Lixnaw Redmond Burke Pierce Lacie and all of them were growen wearie of the Rebellion and that the President had commerce with all those durst not commit himselfe into their power they being so strong and hee so poore and weake fearing left they should haue delivered him being the marke the President chiefly aymed at to worke their owne peace Dermond O Conner having now heard that the young Earle of Desmond his Brother in law was arrived in Mounster according to the Presidents promise to him made that he should come was desirous that hee should repaire thither with intent to doe some acceptable service for her Majestie which being made knowen by the Lady Margaret his wife the Lord President sent him a Safe-conduct for himselfe and his followers and procured the like from Sir Arthur Saâ—age the chiefe Commissioner in Connaght and also from the Earle of Clanrickard to secure his passage through his Countrey and for his better safetie he sent an hundred Foot to guard him as soone as hee should enter into Thomond Hee being now past Clanrickard and comming to Oshafnesses Countrey within seventeene or eighteene miles of Limerick Theobald ne Long Burke who
Earle of Thomonds Quarter who stood in guard without the Trenches The Enemie sallyed about eight of the clocke in the night being extreame darke and raynie with about two thousand men and first gaue slightly towards the new Trenches upon the West side and presently after with a great grosse upon the trench of the Cannon continuing their resolution to force it with exceeding fury having brought with them tooles of divers sorts to pull downe the Gabions and Trenches and Spikes to cloy the Artillery The Allarme being taken in the Camp the Marshall with Sir Iohn Barkley and Sir William Fortescue Sir Francis Rush and Captaine Roe with some fiue or sixe hundred sallyed presently towards the Cannon for their seconds and Sir Benjamin Berry fell out with some hundred directly towards the Port of the Towne next to the Campe to whose seconds the Lord Deputie sent Sir Oliver Saint-Iohn Vpon the arrivall of the Marshall with his Forces the enemy brake and our men did execution upon them Sir Benjamin Berry fell directly upon the Enemies seconds whom he presently charged and brake killed many of them and tooke the Commander of that body being an ancient Captaine of chiefe account with the enemy At the same time the enemy gaue upon our new Trenches and continued the attempt a long time with great fury till Captaine Flower sallying out and beating backe part of their forces the enemy entred before his returne and were possessed of the Trenches in which time Sir William Godolphin gaue many charges for the seconding of our men which continued fight in the field untill the Earle of Clanricard being sent for their second with Captaine Shipwith Captaine Slingsby Captaine Clare Captaine Boise and Captaine Thomas Burke with some sixtie men for the rest of his Regiment was not advanced so farre charged a grosse of the Enemies without the sort brake them and did execution upon them towards the Towne and returning entered the fort againe which the Enemy abandoned with little resistance and made it good till hee was releeved In this sally the Enemy left behind them aboue sixscore dead bodies besides such as were killed neere the Towne and wee tooke nine prisoners of whom there was a Captaine a Sergeant and a Drum but since wee heard out of the Towne that they lost dead aboue two hundred of their best men and two Captaines and two Alfeeroes and the Sergeant Major being the second Commander to Don Iohn and Don Carloes Carty and aboue two hundred hurt of our part were hurt Captaine Flower Captaine Shipwith slightly in the face the Earle of Clanricards Lieutenant Captaine Dillon killed Captaine Spencer Captaine Flowers Lieutenant and some fiue and twentie private Souldiers the Enemy at the Cannon cloyed a Demy Culvering which being a little crased was left without the fort but the next morning it was made serviceable againe There were some of them killed upon the Cannon and upon the powder and the trenches in some places filled with their dead bodies and in that attempt of the Cannon onely seventy two dead bodies were left in the place of the best men the Spaniards had whereof many of them were found with Spikes and Hammers to cloy the Cannon The Captaines Officers and Souldiers that defended the Cannon acquitted themselues singularly well CHAP. XVIII A supply of Spaniards landed at Castle-haven A Councell of warre held Good service done by a Scottish man Odonnell joyned with the Spaniards at Castle-haven All the Irish in the West of Mounster and some of the English race revolted and adhered to the Spaniards Sundry Castles rendred by the Irish into the Spaniards hands Divers of the Irish had Companies in pay given them by Don Iuan. The Castle of Carigfotle taken and the Ward murdered Tyrones Army discovered neere to our Campe. INtelligence sent to the Lord Deputie that sixe Spanish ships were put into Castle-haven and that sixe more were sent with them from the Groyne but in comming were severed by tempest and no certainetie what is become of them in these were said to bee two thousand Spaniards come with great store of Ordnance and munition and that two thousand more were comming presently after A confirmation of the Spaniards being at Castlehaven and that they were landed whereupon it was resolved in Councell that our Campe should bee strengthned and the Artillery better intrenched and guarded and to leaue battering the other Campe to rise and sit downe close by the Towne betweene the North and the West gate adding one Regiment more to it and all the Horse to be drawen into our Campe a Drum was sent to Don Iohn to offer him to bury his dead bodies which hee tooke thankfully praying that we would bury them and that hee would doe the like for any of ours if they hapned in his power And this day Sir Charles Wilmot with his Regiment was commanded for the better strengthning of the Earle of Thomonds quarter to rise out of the Lord Deputies Campe and lodge there Sir Richard Levison with a good part of the Fleete with towing got out of the harbour to seeke the Spanish fleete at Castle-haven to take them if hee could or otherwise to distresse them as much as hee might A Scottishman that had some eightie of those Spaniards aboard put into Kinsale harbour in the morning and getting a boat acquainted Sir Amias Preston the Viceadmirall therewith and put them into his hands whereupon the said Scottishman and foure of the chiefe Spaniards being Officers were brought to the Lord Deputy and examined before his Lordship the Lord President and divers others of the Councell their examinations were sent into England the Ships were heard to be in fight that day This day our Ordnance was drawen from the old platformes into our Campe the better to intend the service of the Field and to place them more commodiously towards the West side of the Towne if wee should see cause Newes came this Evening that Odonnell was joyned with the Spaniards landed at Castle-haven and that Tirone with his Force was very neere vs. The same day the Ditches and Trenches of the Lord Deputies Campe and the Earle of Thomonds Quarter were cast deeper and higher and it was resolved that two small Forts should bee raysed betweene the Earle of Thomonds Quarter and the water side so that the Towne might bee wholly invested to forbid any accesse to or from it Vntill this time none of the Provincialls of Mounster that had beene either protected or pardoned relapsed but now upon the comming of these seconds to Castlehaven Sir Finnin Odriscall and all the Odriscalls Sir Owen Mac Carties sonnes and almost all the Carties in Carbrie Donnell Osulevan Beare Osulevans Mores eldest son Donnell Mac Cartie the Earle of Clan-Cares base sonne with all the Carties of Desmond Iohn O Conner Kerry the Knight of Kerry all the protected and pardoned men in Kerry
these forces should joyne and that there was no way for Sir Charles to march but by the Abbey of Erillah and so over the Mangart a most hideous and uncouth Mountaine they plashed and manned all the places straights and advantages thereof giving forth that they would set up their rest and either kill or bee killed before they would permit him to passe But to proceed The ninth the Lord President went over into the Iland Whiddy to take view thereof and returned to the Campe that night and the tenth rode towards the mouth of the harbour to see the entrie thereof The eleventh the President drew foorth all the Regiments leaving onely a competent number to guard the Quarter in his absence and marched two myles from the Campe beyond Carrigâ—esse to the edge of the Straight where Tirrâ—ll with the Rebells were lodged to giue disturbance to Sir Charles Wilmotts comming to the Campe to the intent if the Enemy had given upon Sir Charles hee might giue him Seconds But the passage was quitted and the Forces came through the same withouâ— any blowe and the very same day the Ships arrived in the Harbour which brought about the Victualls and Munitions from Corke it breeding great gladnesse to the Army then being in so great want as that wee must haue beene enforced within two dayes to haue returned towards Baltimore The twelfth the Lord President received Letters from the Lord Deputie by Iohn Pavie his servant whereby hee was required to send a great proportion of Munition and Victualls out of his Province to his Lordship which hee performed accordingly and returned his man The same day also the Hoy which brought about the Ordnance and the Trinitie belonging to Iames Goagh of Waterford with the remainder of the Munitions and victuals which was left for her Guard both safely arrived at Carew Castle where we still encamped The thirteenth whilest we were thus detained by unseasonable weather there was a notorious Rebell accidentally slaine upon this occasion The President at his comming from Corke had commaunded all the Subjects in Kinaâ—mecha Kirrywherry and Kinaley to draw the Cattell Northwards into the plaine towards Yoghall and Castleâ—lyons because if the Rebells should draw thitherwards while he was at the siege of Donboy they might not receiue any reliefe from those parts amongst the which Mac Cartie Reugh would not driue away his cattell pretending to keepe them secure from the Rebells under the garrison of Kinsale and indeed the reason was because the principall Rebells in Carbery being his deare friends and neere kinsmen he did not stand in feare to receiue any dammage from them But it fell out that Dermond Moyleâ—Mac Cartie Florence his brother being distressed for want of Victuall for himselfe and his followers having no other meanes to supply his wants thought to make bold with his Cozen Mac Cartia for a few Cowes and therefore came amongst his Tenants with thirtie men in his company and seazing upon some part of their prey offered to retyre toward his Faâ—â—nesse The Churles that attended those cattell rayâ—ed the crie whereupon some fourty of the Countrey with such furniture as â—ame next to â—and speedily followed in rescue of their goods The Rebells not fearing any Enemy made no great haste away and thereby being soone overtaken these sought to rescue their prey and they to defend them in such sort that in processe they fell to a light skirmish and not many shot made before one lighted upon the chiefe Rebell Dermond and killed him dead in the place which being knowen it bred no lesse astonishment in the one partie then in the other all the Countrey being equally grieved for the losse of such a principall Piller of the Catholique Cause and therefore conveying his corpes to the Abbey of Timoleg was there interred by a Fryet in great solemnitie Mac Cartie Reugh sent present Letters hereof to the President signifying the vigilant care and unpartiall regard that hee carried against the Rebells which his Lordship might well perceiue by his service against his neerest kinsman and the President was content to giue him thanks although he knew how little he had deserved the same CHAP. V. 〈…〉 THE 〈…〉 straights as the Enemy being first possest thereof they might with the twentieth part of the force they had there giue annoyance and impediment to the greatest Army for which and other reasons it was resolved by a generall consent that the Army should bee transported over the Arme of the Sea to the great Iland and from thence to passe to the Maine The fifteenth the Traytor Tirrell sent two of his most trusty friends into the Campe as Messengers to the Lord President to invite and pray a parley the day following with his Lordship which hee refused then hee desired that he might speake with the Earle of Thomond which was granted at a place upon the edge of a River about a mile distant from our Campe And the same day Captaine Taffe with his troope of Horse all our cariage gerrans and drivers and one hundred choise foote selected out of all our Regiments were sent backe to the Castle ny Parke to guard the Towne of Kinsale and the Ordnance there Captaine Hobbie and Captaine Skipwith being there before with their two weake Companies not thought sufficient in this uncertaine time to secure those places The sixteenth the Earle of Thomond well attended drew forth his Regiment and went to the assigned place but Tirrell failing to be there excused by his former Messengers his not comming by the approach of the evening praying his Lordships patience promising there to attend his Lordship the next morning The seventeenth the Earle the second time according to promise drew downe to the appoynted place where Tirrell onely made a shew of his whole force on the other side the River in the view of our Army but never came to the place where the Earle was whose treacherous intent the Earle perceiving and scorning to expect any other issue returned to the Campe Tirrell as afterwards wee understood would faine haue gone to the Earle but the Iusuit Archer Fits Morris and Donnell Osulevan would not permit him From the seventeenth to the sixe and twenty nothing hapned worthy note only we were detayned in our Campe with contrary winds and with strange unseasonable and tempestuous weather The sixe and twentieth the wind turned faire and the shipping drew forth but immediatly the weather proved so tempestuous that they were constrayned to returne to their former rode and the same day a Sergeant of the Earle of Tâ—omonds with a partie of his Company drew to Down-Manus whence hee brought a prey of three-score and sixe Cowes with a great many of Garrans The seven and twentieth the eight and twentieth the nine and twentieth and the thirtieth wee were detayned with like contrary winds and unseasonable fowle and stormy weather CHAP. VI. The
Army dislodged from Carew Castle The Regiments transported into the great Iland Teg Keugh Mac Maghon slaine The Castle of Donmâ—nâ—s surprised A Spanish ship arrived The confâ—rence beâ—â—eene the Earle of 〈◊〉 and Richard Mac-Goghagan The Lord President rides to the place where the forces were to land The vigilant care of the Lâ—rd President Two Regiments directed to land in the little Iland the other two to make to the Maine The Rebels deceaved The Rebel defeated and Captaine Terrell 〈◊〉 THE one and thirtieth the weather grew faire and wee tooke advantage thereof and drew forth which day our Army dislodged from Carew Castle leaving our sicke men which were many with a strong guard in the Iland of Whyddy and marched to Kilnamenoghe on the Sea side in Mountervarry where we encamped that night The first of Iune the Earle of Thomond and his Regiment were embarqued for the great Iland as also Sir Charles Wilmoâ—s and his Regiment after whose departure the Lord President remooved his campe to a head-land three parts whereof were invironed with the Sea and the rest was intrenched The second Sir Richard Percie and his Regiment followed the other two and lastly the Lord President with his landed in the great Iland where the other Regiments were formerly arrived The Lord President being wearied with his long stay there spending the time without advancing the service for that the Hoy wherin the Peeces of Battery was could not so well 〈◊〉 to windward as the rest without which hee could effect noâ—hing of his intended service sent Captaine Slingsby aboard who had before been conversant in Sea-affaires to use his best diligence in getting those vessells to the great Iland neere to the Castle of Donboy which with towing the Hoy at the Sâ—erne of the Trinitie of Waterford and other diligence used hee effected the service and arrived at the great Iland The third Tâ—g Keâ—gh Maâ— Maghon a principall Rebell in an Iland adjoyning to the Dorseys was casually shot through the body by his owne sonne whereof he dyed the third day following The fourth Owen Osulevan and two of his brothers with a partie of men went to the Castle of Donmanuâ— which was held and guarded by the Rebells which they surprized and kept the same killed foure of the Guard and tooke the prey and spoyle of the Towne The fifth a Spanish ship arrived at the Bay of Camnarra neere Ardea in Desmond And the same day Richard Mac Goghagan being the Constable of Dunboy came into the great Iland and spake with the Earle of Thomond but whether he were sent by the Presidents intreatie to see whether he could perswade with Mac Goghagan vpon promise of reward to render the Castle to the Queene or whether Richard Mac Goghagan did intreat the Earle that he might haue a Safe-conduct to speake with him I am uncertaine but of this I am sure that the Earles meeting with him was not without the Presidents knowledge and allowance All the Eloquence and artifice which the Earle could use avayled nothing for Mac Goghagan was resolved to persevere in his wayes and in the great loue which he pretended to beare unto the Earle hee advised him not to hazard his life in landing upon the Mayne for I know sayd hee you must land at yonder Sandy Bay where before your comming the place will bee so trenched and gabioned as you must runne upon assured death The Earle disdayning both his obstinacie and his vaine-glorious advice brake off speech telling Mac Goghagan that ere many dayes passed hee would repent that hee had not followed his counsell The sixth being Sunday a foule and stormie morning the Lord President very early taking but one Footman with him rode two or three miles from the Campe to the place where the Boats were assembled to passe the Army which that day was to rise over into the Maine The cause which moved him to be stirring so timely was to view the landing place which was lesse then halfe a mile from the place of the embarquing from whence hee might easily discerne a low sandy Bay betweene high ground of a very little capacitie where the discent was to bee made which was entrenched and barricadâ—ed with gabions of earth in the which trench and behind the gabions the enemies had placed there Muskettiers and their grosse at hand to giue them seconds But not contented with a view so farre off the Queenes Pinnace the Merlin riding not farre from him hee commanded Captaine Flemming to passe him over into a little Iland called Donghe Irish which lay betweene the great Iland and the Maine and some part of it not twelue score from the sandy Bay aforesaid When hee came into the said Iland and taking an exact view of the landing place and how the rebels Army lodged to forbid our descent and the apparant danger hee saw would ensue in the attempt hee rounded all the small Iland and at last hee found a convenient place to land in the Maine and the same by reason of a rising ground in the middest thereof was out of the sight of the sandy Bay presently hee commanded Captaine Fleming to land out of his Pinnace in the Iland two falcons of brasse and hailed them upon their trunks to a place naturally formed like a platforme and parrapetted with an old ditch as if it had beene fashioned to that purpose In this place the Peeces were planted from it to the Maine land it was not aboue one hundred paces and although the distance from the sandy Bay to this place was not foure and twenty score yet to come unto it was more then halfe a mile by reason of a Gurt or cleft Rock made by the Sea which ran up farre into the land which the Enemy must compasse before hee could come unto it By that time that the President had performed as much as hee intended in the small Iland the Presidents and the Earle of Thomonds regiments were embarqued and under saile whom the President when they came neere unto him caused to land where hee stood in the small Iland and drawing them to that end of the same which faced the sandy Bay to amuse the rebels being not distant from them as is said a Musket shot hee formed them into a battallion and so stood firme confronting the Enemy as if from thence hee would passe them into the Maine Sir Richard Percy and Sir Charles Wilmot with the reare Regiments by this time were likewise embarqued For you must understand that wee had not Boats sufficient to transport all our Regiments at once and they likewise made to the small Iland but in steed of landing in the same the President directed them to passe by the end of it when hee had placed the faulcons and to land directly in the Maine before the Rebels found themselues deceived the two reare Regiments were landed and formed into
surprised with a feaver in his returne to Mounster 1602 In what estate the province of Mounster was in after the siege of Kinsal The warre of Ireland censured to bee lawfully maintained by the rebels in the opinion of the learned men in Spaine The names of the Doctors of Salamanca who ceâ—sured the lawfulnesse of the rebellion in Ireland The Earle of Thomond directed to march with an Army into Carbery His Instructions The castle of Dunboy fortified by the Rebells The Earle of ThomoÌ„d having placed convenient garisons in the West returned to Corke The L. President resolued to besiege the Castle of Doâ—boy A List of the Armie in Mounster Note that the names thus ☞ marked were Colonels of foot Regiments The L. President was advised not to enterprise the winning of the Castle of Donboy and the reasons why The L. President perseveres in his resolution 23. Aprill the Army began to march towards Donboy 24. Aprill 25. Aprill 26. Aprill 27. April 30. Aprill 1. May. Preyes taken from the Enemy 2. May. An other prey 3. May. A third preyâ— 4. May. 5. May. 7. May 8. May. Cap. Bostock and Captaine Barry sent to Sir Charles Wilmot A digression of Sir Char Wilmots proceedings in Kerry Divers rebels slaine by Sir Charles Wilmot A traâ—torly Souldier hanged A Ward put into Carigfoyle The castle of Lixnaw taken by Composition The Castle of Ballihow taken and the Knight of Kerry defeated Castle Gregory and Rahane taken The forces which the rebels had in Kerry in bonaght The Lord of Lixnaw banished out of Kerry The voluntary submission of Donnell Mac Cartie Sir Charles Wilmot required by the Lo. President to come to the Campe at Carew Castle A great prey taken from Osulevan More his sonne The Knight of Kerry upon humble sute protected 9. May. 11. May. Sir Charles Wilmot with the forces of Kerry the munition and victuals froÌ„ Corke arrived at the camp remaining then at Carew castle 12. May. Munition victuall sent by the Lord President to the Lor. Deputie 13. May. Dermond Moyleâ— Mac Carty brother to Florence slaine It was resolved in Councell that the army should be traÌ„sported by sea to the great Iland froÌ„ thence to the Maâ—n 15. May. The rebell Tirrell desired a parlâ—y with the Lo. President All our horse were sent froÌ„ the campe certaine foot to guard Kinsale 16. May. 17. May. Tirrel fayled twise to parley with the Earle of Thomond the cause why 26. May. Aprey taken 27. May. 31. May. The Army dislodged froÌ„ Carew Castle 1. Iune The Regiments transported into the great Iland 2. Iune 3. Iune Teg Keâ—gh mac Maghon slaine 4. Iune The castle of Donmanus surprized 5. Iune A Spanish ship arrived A conference betweene the Ear. of Thomond Ric. Mac Goghagan 6. Iune The L. President rode to view the place where the forces wâ—re to land Donghe Irish. The vigilant care of the Lord President Two RegimeÌ„ts landed in the little Iland The two 〈◊〉 ther Regiments landed in the Maine The Rebels deceived The Rebels defeated and Captaine Tirrell wounded The Spanish ship which arrived neer to Ardea brought passengers munition and money to the Rebels The distributers and the distribution of some of the mony Postscript 8. Iunij Two Espials of the Rebels hanged 11. Iunij The Campe entrenched and the Artillery drawen into the market place The approaches were begun to bee made 12. Iunij The Iland of the Dorsies taken and in it divers rebels slaine and taken prisoners besides munition artillery and much other spoyle 16. Iune The artillery plaÌ„ted befâ—â—e Donboy 17. Iune Donboy battered A breach made The breach assaulted Diuers of the rebels slaine in seeking to escape by a Salley Others that recouered the river were slaine in the water He which pulled the Ear of Ormond froÌ„ his horse wheÌ„ he was takeÌ„ prisoner was slaine The L. Presidents Colors placed on the top of the castle but the vault was stil maintained by the rebels 18. Iune Sundry of the rebels voluntarily yeeld themselues The remainder of them made election of a new captaine whose resolution was extraordinary A Battery made upon the vault For feare of bâ—ing buried in the ruines of the vault the rest of the rebels reÌ„dred themselues A desperate resolution of Mac Goghegan 58. executed the rest of the Rebels reserved for a time The whole number of the Ward in Donboy The losse wee received in the siege Captaines men of quality and others wounded The services propounded to Tirrell he refuseth The reasons of his refusal 22 Iunij The Castle of Donboy blowne up with powder Tirrells men which were respited executed 23. Iunij The Army shipped and transported into the great Iland The Downings taken 24. Iunij 25. Iunij 26. Iunij Leaâ—-â—on Castle takeÌ„ 27. Iunij 28. Iunâ—j The Castle of Lettertinlesse taken and burnt 29. Iunij The Lord President returned â—o Corke 30. Iune The Companies sent for by the Lord Deputie delivered over to Sir Samuell Bagnall 1. Iulij The confidence which the Irish had of supplyes from Spaine made them obstinate Supplyes of a thousand foote from England for Monster Sir Charles Wilmot with his Regiment sent into Kerry 5. Iul. Iames Archer and Conner Odriscall fled into Spaine Sir Owâ—n Mac Carties sonnes revolt 10. Iuly Divers Castles taken in Carbery by the Garrisons The description of Bear-haven The description of the haven of Baltimore The description of Castle haven The Spanish Hostages licensed to depart The taking of Donboy was the cause that the Army which was prepared in Spaine for Ireland was stayâ—d 2000. Supplies of Foot for MouÌ„ster Ioh. fits Thomas his practise to deceiue the Lo. President but failed in the same A false rumour of the Spanish fleet on the coast of Mounster Sir Samuell â—agnal with his RegimeÌ„t commanded to stay in Mounster The Castle of Blarney in the custoâ—y of Captaine Taffe The Castle and Abbey of Kilcrey rendred to the Lo. President but the Castle of Mocrumpe was detayned from him Mocrumpe besieged Cormocks wife children imprisoned Cormock Mac Dermond plotted his escape 2. Septemb. Instructions for Captaine Harvie to write into Spaine The Lord Presidents Passeport for Captaine Edâ—ie into Spaine Spanish intelligence sent from Master Secretary Cecill to the Lord President 29. Septemb. Cormocke Mac Dermond made an escape out of prison The L. President offers the L. Deputie to send him of his liâ—t one or two regimeÌ„ts He advertiseth of Odonnels death 22. Octob. Tirrels quarter assayled by Sir muell Sagnall The losse on the Rebels part Tirrell rageth in fury against the inhabitants of Muskery He retireth into Beare Desmond The death of Cap Harvie Cap. Flower succeeded Capt. Harvy in his government The Castle of Cloghan summoned The Constables brother hanged The castle of Cloghan rendred A branch of a Letter from the Lords of the Councell to the Lord President The Ensignes of Magistracy redelivered to the Corporation of Kinsale The Spaniards defeated at Kinsale in King Richard the seconds time The Rising out of the country committed to the Lord Barries charge The L. Deputy requires the L. President to meete him at Galway Sir George Thornton appointed to joyne with the L. Barry A message froÌ„ the rebell Tirrel to the L. President and his answere The Knight of Kerry defeated by Sir Ch. Wilmot The Knight of Kerry Th. Oge Osulevan Mores sonne make their submissions A foule murder committed by Osulevan Mores sonne 27. Decem. 30. Decem. The Lord Barry and Sir George Thornton joyne their forces with Sir Charles Wilmot A skirmish 31. Decem. A prey taken from the rebels out of their Fastnesse Divers Rebels submit themselues William Burke Iohn O Connâ—r Kerry and Osulevan Beare with their Bonnoghs fled out of the Province The losses which they sustayned in their passage through the County of Corke The hard shift they made to passe over the Shenan The good service done upon them by the Sherife of the county of Tipperary Captaine Henry Malby slaine 4. Ianuarij Beare Bantry and the Dorsies spoâ—eled and left wast The Castles of Ardea and Carricknesse rendered 6. Ia. Cap. Taffe employed against the Rebels in Carbry The Popes Vicar slaine and the Rebels defeated The Carties of Carby submitted themselues to the Lord President The Lord President sent one thousand foote munitioned and victualled to the Lord Deputy The Lo. Deputy sent to the Lo. President for men munition and himselfe to repaire unto him The List of her Majesties Forces in Mounâ—â—er Sir Edward Wingfield sent by the Lord President with fiue hundred foote into Connaght 23. Febr. The Lord of Lixnaw defeated by Capt. Bois The Castle of Kilcow takeÌ„ by Captaine Flower The Castle of Berengary taken by Sir Charles Wilmot Sir Charles Wilmoâ— and Sir George Thornton left by the Lo. PresideÌ„t Ioynt Commissioners for the government of Mounster 26. Febr.
after that rate for more or lesse in quantitie Item our said Soveraigne Lady c. That hee shall and may to all and every persons bringing into any place for the exchange appointed in Ireland monies of base allay heretofore currant or now vsed within the Realme deliver by himselfe or his deputies like quantities by weight of the monies of this new Coyne as he or his deputies shall receiue of any such old base monies by weight Item our said Soveraigne Lady doth c. That she wil allow unto the said Sir Gâ—o Cary or his Assignes for the charges of transportation of the monies of this new Coyne from her Tower of London into her Majesties said Realme of Ireland aswell to the Citie of Dublin as to any other places where Exchanges are to be established or payments to bee made for her service after the rate of twentie pounds of this new Standard upon every thousand pound of the same coyne the same to bee allowed unto him upon his account as her Majesties Treasurer at warres in Ireland Item our said Soveraigne Lady doth c. That whensoever and as often as any of the monies of this new Standard of Ireland after their first uttering in payment to her Highnesse Armie there being brought backe againe to the Exchange to be converted in sterling or otherwise shall by her Majesties commandement bee 〈◊〉 againe for her Highnesse service in payment of her Armie or otherwise That so often her Highnesse will allow to the said Sir George Cary or his Assignes after the 〈◊〉 of ten pounds of this new Standard upon every thousand pounds of the same coyne by tale the same to bee allowed unto him upon his account as Treasurer of her Highnesse warres in Ireland Item our said Soveraigne Lady doth c. That shee will allow unto the said Sir George Cary for all such summes of money as shall by her Highnesse from time to â—ime beâ— sent or delivered out of her Exchequer for the furnishing mâ—intenance of this Exchange after the rate of 〈…〉 â—pon every thousand pounds by â—ale The said Sir George Câ—â—y taking upon him the charges and expence of conveying her Majesties said Treasure unto the placâ—s where the same shall bee vsed for the exchange Item our said Soveraigne Lady doth c. That all hazard and danger hapning in the transportation of this her Majesties monies out of her Realme of England into Ireland either by wrecke of Sea or tempest or by violence of enemies shall bee at the only perill of our said Soveraigne Lady her Heires and Successors as heretofore it hath beene in like cases the said Sir George Cary making proofe that hee his deputies or Assignes having charge of the said transportation haue vsed all such care heed and diligence for the safe conveyance thereof as they would or might haue done for the assurance of their owne goods or as heedfull provident men use to doe for the safetie of their goods in like adventures Item our sayd Soveraigne Lady doth c. That shee shall and will from time to time furnish and deliver to the said Sir George Carey or his Assignes all such summes of money as shall bee requisite and needfull for Exchanging and converting of this new Irish Coyne into moneys of the Standerd of England according to her Majesties Proclamation after the rate of one fourth part at the least of such quantities of this Irish moneys as her Majestie shall cause to be coyned from time to time or after a greater rate if it shall appeare by experience that a greater portion then a fourth part of the same shal be returned to the Exchange Item our sayd Soveraigne Ladie doth c. That if at any time heereafter her Majestie shall thinke good to cease the Exchange and not to continue the converting of Irish moneys into sterling and that it shall happen that at such time there shall bee remaining in the hands of the sayd Sir George Carey any quantities of Irish Monies great or small not issued for her Majesties service that in such case her Highnesse will accept and allow unto the said Sir George Cary upon his account all such summes of money at such raâ—e and valew as the same were delivered unto him to bee issued in payment for her service And further her Majestie doth covenant c. That for the defraying of all Wages Fees and Stipends as well to him the said Sir George Cary as 〈…〉 of the Exchanges as also to all other Officers needfull to bee established for the exercise of the same either within the Realme of England or in Ireland wheresoever her Highnesse doth and will allow unto the said Sir George Cary the summe of two thousand pounds of the monies of this new Standard by the yeare to bee taken unto him and stayed in his owne hands out of such profits as upon the exchange doth arise unto her Majestie The said allowance of two thousand pounds per annum to take beginning the first day of May now next ensuing the date hereof and to continue during all the time that the Exchange shall be upheld CHAP. V. A Regiment sent by the Lord President into Connaght Intelligence of the Spanyards comming for Ireland brought to the Lord President sundry wayes Iames fits Thomas his report of Florence Mac Cartie Dermond Mac Awlies report of the Counsell held in Vlster for the Spanyards landing THE Affayres of Mounster thus digested the President according to the Lord Deputies directions expedited with munition and victuals one thousand Foot into Connaght under the command of Sir Francis Barkley The List of the Captaines and Companies were as followeth viz. Sir Francis Barkley 100. Foot Sir Richard Percie 150. Sir Gerrard Harvie 150. Sir Edward fits Gerald 100. Sir Iohn Dowdall 100. Captaine Iohn Bostocke 100. Captaine George Kingsmill 100. Captaine George Blunt 100. Captaine William Power 100. Besides fiftie Horse under the command of Captaine Richard Greame which Regiment was sent to giue countenance unto the service of Ballishanon intended by Sir Henry Docwray although the President was very loath to spare them at this time for the rumour of Spanish preparations for Ireland which had been secretly whispered all this Spring was now strongly conceited and confidently beleeved by all the Irish And moreover certaine Advertisment hereof was daily brought unto the President from the Irish Merchants Factors in Spaine from the Priests in Italy to the Irish Lords from the English in France to their private friends all of them agreeing in one adde heereunto the constant Asseverations of Iames fits Thomas the titulary Earle then a condemned prisoner who after his apprehension and condemnation being often examined was still confident of the Spanyards comming and being demaunded his cause of knowledge answered That the Spanish Fryer Don Matheo de Oviedo whom they call Archbishop of Dublin did assure him of the Kings pleasure therein and to hasten the same hee tooke his journey from Spaine
in February last leaving great store of plate and other riches for a pledge behind him And being farther examined concerning Florence Mac Carty hee answered that the said Florence did ever by sight or otherwise acquaint him with what the President wrote unto him and did continually sweare protest and giue all outward assurance never to desist in this action but to persevere therein to the end and that the Spaniards and Rebels of Vlster did build their principall hopes of Mounster upon himselfe and Florence Mac Carty all this was also verified by certaine intelligences which the Lord Barry received from Dermond Mac Awley lately come from the North the effect whereof was thus much When the Spanish Arch-bishop was to returne into Spaine in February last there was a Councell holden in Vlster by Tyrone Odonnell the said Bishop and all the chiefe Traytors of those parts Iohn of Desmond Lixnaw Pierce Lacy Donoghe Mac Cormock and this Dâ—rmond Mac Awley being called thereupon the chiefest matter debated in this consultation was what place of Ireland was the most convenient where the Spanish forces should make their arrivall It was without much difficulty or gainesaying resolved for all respects Mounster was the fittest Province to be invaded then it remayned to consider what place in that Province they should first attempt and concerning this point the Mounster men were required to deliver their opinions Pierce Lacy began and urged certaine reasons why hee thought it most requisit for them first to gaine Limerick and plant there because the Provinces of Connaght and Linster were neere at hand to minister aide to the Spanish Armie and Vlster was not farre distant being also the place most remote from England especially for shipping All the rest being induced by these reasons to subscribe unto his opinion Donoghe Mac Cormock stood up and withstood this Councell saying that Mac Cartie More from whose mouth he said he spake it upon mature deliberation did advise their comming to Corke for the taking of that place would bee of most importance as well for the countenancing of the action where the President most resided as the magazins of victuals and munitions were placed there and also it being a farre better outlet then the River of Limerick the Citie weaker and sooner forced And lastly in landing there they should border upon Barry Roche Cormock Mac Dermond and Mac Carty Reughe all which for feare of their estates were partially affected to the English and by that meanes either constraine them to conjoyne with them in the action or else to make their Countrey and people a prey unto the Army After long disputation the Councell of Florence delivered by Donoghe Mac Cormock was most applauded and so they concluded to land the Spanish Armie in the River of Corke CHAP. VI. Florence Mac Cartie is by the Lord President committed to prison A briefe Collection of Florence Mac Carties treasons and practises with the Rebels not touching any thing formerly related VPON these and many other reasons that shall hereafter be alleaged the President thought that he could not possibly accomplish a service more acceptable to her Majestie nor profitable for the State and more availeable to divert the Spanish preparations then to commit unto prison and safe custody the body of this Florence which was accordingly effected about the beginning of Iune one thousand sixe hundred and one a man so pernitious and dangerous to the State which had sundry wayes broken his severall protections upon his apprehension which was in Corke the President tooke present order that search should bee made in the Pallace his chiefe house in Desmond and other places of his aboad for all such Letters and writings as could therein bee found whereby was discovered such a Sea of rebellious and traiterous practises as her Majestie and her hoâ—ourable Councell being acquainted therewith thought good that hee should be sent into England with the Arch-traytortitulary Earle of Desmond Iames fits Thomas The conduction of these two firebrands of Mounster upon the fourteenth of August 1601. was committed to the charge of Sir Anthony Cooke who brought them to the Tower of London where they yet remaine But for as much as this Florence hath sithence his commitment insisted upon his Iustification complayning of hard measure offered him by her Majestie and her Officers I am therefore constrained though much against my will for satisfaction of all indifferent men Welwillers and confutation of all malitious Cavillers to lay open briefely as I may his whole cariage and conversation since his late landing within this kingdome forbearing to insist upon such poynts as haue already bin touched in this relation Thou maiest bee pleased therefore to understand gentle Reader that the rebels of Mounster being growne to such an exceeding strength as you haue heard and amongst these Donnell Mac Cartie Florence his base brother in Law one of the chiefe her Majestie thought good to diminish their forces with sparing as much blood and expending as little treasure as conveniently might bee and therefore knowing that Florence Mac Cartie was better beloved in the Countrey then Donnell having made many solemne vowes and taken many voluntary oathes for his continued loyaltie was dispatched into Ireland in the moneth of May 1599. and to the end hee might bee the more encouraged and better enabled to doe her Highnesse service it pleased her Majestie to direct her favourable Letters to Robert Earle of Essex then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland authorising him to giue order for Letters Patents to bee made containing an effectuall graunt to the said Florence Mac Cartie and Ellen his wife and to the Heires males of their bodies lawfully begotten of all the Countrey of Desmond and such other Lands whereof hee had any estate of inheritance but withall authorising the said Lord Lieutenant and Councell to stay those Letters Pattents in the Hamper or deliver them according as they should see cause in the proofe they should make of the behaviour of the said Florence Now that yee may see in what dutifull manner hee requiâ—ed this trust in what gratefull manner this kindnesse and in what religious manner these oathes I will recite a part of the examination of Iohn Anias taken before Sir Nicholas Welsh and Iustice Comerford which may explaine the same the thirteenth of October 1600. He saith that in May last Florence Mac Cartie sent one Maur. More to him wishing him to repaire to his Lodging at Corke and that Florence was desirous to be acquainted with him whereupon hee came to Florence and in Florence his Chamber hee the said Florence and none other but they two being present said that he understood that this Examinate was an Enginer and one that had skill in devising and erecting of Fortifications and that he would willingly imploy him in the like Anias demanding of Florence what or where hee would haue his Workes raysed Hee answered at Dunkerran wherein hee might upon any